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... Stendhal in Le Rouge et le Noir . Contemporary criticism was outraged . Even Sainte - Beuve , who needed only to look into his own heart to discover what contrary qualities could exist side by side in some kind of harmony , [ 69 ] THE ...
... Stendhal in Le Rouge et le Noir . Contemporary criticism was outraged . Even Sainte - Beuve , who needed only to look into his own heart to discover what contrary qualities could exist side by side in some kind of harmony , [ 69 ] THE ...
Page 70
... Stendhal has succeeded in making him entirely plausible , but that , I believe , is due to causes that I shall mention in another part of this book . For the first three quarters of the novel he is perfectly consistent . Sometimes he ...
... Stendhal has succeeded in making him entirely plausible , but that , I believe , is due to causes that I shall mention in another part of this book . For the first three quarters of the novel he is perfectly consistent . Sometimes he ...
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... Stendhal , in one of his manuscripts , has written the names of the persons who had suggested his characters ; Dickens , as we all know , portrayed his father in Mr Micawber and Leigh Hunt in Harold Skimpole . Turgenev stated that he ...
... Stendhal , in one of his manuscripts , has written the names of the persons who had suggested his characters ; Dickens , as we all know , portrayed his father in Mr Micawber and Leigh Hunt in Harold Skimpole . Turgenev stated that he ...
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