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Stendhal

Stendhal

2 8.5
A French writer from the 1800s who writes novels about people's inner feelings
  • proper noun
  • /ˈstɛndəl/
: Stendhal
  • Stendhal's works, such as 'The Red and the Black', have influenced countless writers.

Robin Richardson at Robin_R_R says, can Stendhal syndrome kill you?

Examples

  • In addition to this one on James, he wrote essays on Stendhal and Huysmans.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Not surprisingly, he admires Stendhal's physiological system of classifying love as proposed in De l'Amour.

    Academic text (1992)

  • As for Stendhal, the priest said, he was a dangerous writer.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Think of the reasons for travel that Stendhal and Goethe suggest.

    Academic text (2002)

  • I had learned this mental trick in one of the novels I was reading that summer, Stendhal's The Red and the Black.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Other writers, Stendhal for instance, have shown that between diverse orders of freedom, there exist profound incompatibilities.

    Academic text (1993)

  • One by one, Stendhal begins to scratch in the sand, in shorthand, the names of the women he has loved.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Stendhal understood that.

    White Hunter, Black Heart (1990)

  • "In fact," Stendhal writes, "I've possessed only six of the women I've loved."

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Martin offers a study of Byron, Stendhal, James, Maugham, Pound, and Greene.

    Academic text (1993)

Synonyms

Marie Henri Beyle
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1 9.9

A French writer known as Stendhal who wrote The Red and the Black

is the pen name used for publication instead of the birth name

Surface Forms

Stendhal main

Etymology

Stendhal is the pen name of the French writer Marie-Henri Beyle; he took it from the German town Stendal, the birthplace of an art historian he admired. So Stendhal is the name he used to sign his novels and reminds us of his love of art and history.