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Stendhal

American  
[sten-dahl, stan-, stahn-dal] / stɛnˈdɑl, stæn-, stɑnˈdal /

noun

  1. Marie Henri Beyle, 1783–1842, French novelist and critic.


Stendhal British  
/ stɛ̃dal /

noun

  1. original name Marie Henri Beyle. 1783–1842, French writer, who anticipated later novelists in his psychological analysis of character. His two chief novels are Le Rouge et le noir (1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (1839)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Stendhal Cultural  
  1. The nom de plume of the nineteenth-century French writer and critic Henry Marie Bayle. A major influence on the development of the modern novel, Stendhal's romantic, psychologically realistic works include The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma.


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His final work in 2021 was a production of The Red and the Black based on the 1830 novel by French writer Stendhal.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2023

John Cartwright from the Stendhal festival, which is scheduled to begin on 9 July, said "it has been a long 16 months" for the sector.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2021

“What struck me was the way in which he would talk about Stendhal or Dickens or Eliot or Balzac as though they were fellow craftsmen,” Green said.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2021

She had been one of those teachers that students love, to the point of hanging around after class to talk about Stendhal or Flaubert.

From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2017

Why call the descriptions of battles by Homer poems, but not those of Stendhal or Tolstoy or Zola in Le Chartreuse de Parme or War and Peace or Le Debâcle?

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert

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