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Title: The Life of Henry Brulard (New York Review Books Classics) by Stendhal, John Sturrock, Lydia Davis ISBN: 0-940322-89-7 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Stendhal being Stendhal
Comment: I didn't look forward to trying this book---memoirs of childhood seldom do much for me---but there being so little Stendhal out there in translation, I couldn't overlook it. Well, long book tho it is, H.B. is very readable and a lot of fun for those who love Stendhal's style and persona. Chatty, honest, quirky (all those little maps!), skipping around madly, with the strange mix of irony and idealism that makes Stendhal so "modern," this is an enjoyable book for "the happy few." I doubt there are many books like it---Rousseau's confessions feel much more polished, & hence less "real," than Stendhal's book does. (Of course I'm agnostic on how honest S. really is---but it's a good book, true or not!)
Rating: 5
Summary: goosebumps
Comment: Who would think that an unfinished autobiography could be so good? But despite its rough edges and the odd passage of interest only to the author, the Life of Henry Brulard is very good indeed, and as moving as The Red and the Black. Early in the Life, Stendhal describes the pleasure of reading Florentine goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini's memoirs, so fresh, he notes, that they seem to have been written yesterday. The same could be said for Stendhal's own autobiography.
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Title: Memoirs of an Egotist by Stendahl ISBN: 1843910403 Publisher: Hesperus Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Love (Penguin Classics) by Marie Henri Beyle, Stendhal ISBN: 014044307X Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1975 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story (New York Review Books Classics) by Peter Handke, Jeffrey Eugenides, Ralph Manheim ISBN: 1590170199 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin, Roger Keys, Angela Keys, Angela Jones ISBN: 0811215482 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Spiral Staircase : My Climb out of Darkness (ARMSTRONG, KAREN) by Karen Armstrong ISBN: 0375413189 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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