Stendhal's Violin A Novelist and his Reader [Hardcover]

Stendhal lets his readers experience in the act of reading what his protagonists experience in the act of living, argues this original, well-written study about the relationship between novelist and reader. Novels discussed includeArmance,Le Rouge et le Noir,Lucien Leuwen, andLa Chartreusede Parme.

A significant book on Stendhal the novelist and his relationship with his reader....Person's rich and coherent book is a thoroughly Stendhalian invitation to reading. --Nineteenth-Century French Studies