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The red and the black : authoritative text, context and backgrounds, criticism / Stendhal ; translated by Robert M. Adams ; edited by Susanna Lee.
- Title
- The red and the black : authoritative text, context and backgrounds, criticism / Stendhal ; translated by Robert M. Adams ; edited by Susanna Lee.
- Author
- Stendhal, 1783-1842
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton, c2008.
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- Description
- xix, 631 p. : map; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Le Rouge et le Noir is a Bildungsroman. The protagonist, Julien Sorel, is a driven and intelligent man, but equally fails to understand much about the ways of the world he sets out to conquer. He harbours many romantic illusions, and becomes little more than a pawn in the political machinations of the influential and ruthless people who surround him. Stendhal uses his flawed hero to satirize French society of the time, particularly the hypocrisy and materialism of its aristocracy and the Roman Catholic Church, and to foretell a radical change in French society that will remove both of those forces from their positions of power. The red and the black of the title are the contrasting colors of the army uniform of the times and of the robes of priests, respectively. Julien Sorel observes early on in the novel that, under the Bourbon restoration it is impossible for a man of his class to distinguish himself in the army (as he might have done under Napoleon); now, only a career in the Church offers social advancement and glory. -- Wikipedia.
- Series Statement
- Norton critical edition
- Uniform Title
- Rouge et le noir. English
- Norton critical edition.
- Alternative Title
- Rouge et le noir.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction
- Fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 631).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Map of France -- Political chronology of France, 1774-1830 -- Selected chronology of French literature, 1800 -1850 -- The trial of Antoine Berthet.
- ISBN
- 9780393928839 (pbk.)
- 0393928837 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2007036467
- OCLC
- 168722975
- SCSB-11253046
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library