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La rouge et le noir6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Roman historique, roman d'ambition, roman psychologique, drame d'amour et de passion, Le Rouge et le Noir est un fin melange des sentiments les plus puissants de l'me humaine. The sharpest paradox of all is Mathilde's final appropriation of Julien for history as a latter-day Boniface de la Mole. Publi pour la premire fois en 1830, Le Rouge et le Noir est l'un des romans les plus connus du XIX sicle. The novel's apparent drive to closure is thereby undermined by paradox: “we buy peace through cruelty, and disinterested love through self-interested calculation”. The key figure here is Mathilde who intrudes on his dream of romantic inviolability and revives the ruthlessly calculating side of his personality. hmmmthanks to liravell for helping me finish the subtitles and to Vincent for helping. However, the final chapters resist this sort of apotheosizing closure by insisting on Julien's inevitable sociality. Géronimo has a little Julien Sorel inside him. Henri-Marie Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer.Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839). ![]() The way the text plays with this distinction in its treatment of Julien's love affairs and the convention of the hero of uncertain birth seems to require us to read the ending as a celebration of the untouchable Self. ![]() The contrast in Julien Sorel between the parvenu and the âme tendre is a contrast between a social self and an ‘essential’ self, conceived as being prior to social determination, that Christopher Prendergast has referred to as “the untouchable Self”. ![]()
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