Stendhal

How To Use Stendhal In A Sentence

• Any novel of Nazi Germany or fascist Italy is prefigured in miniature in Stendhal's "Charterhouse of Parma. In the World of Night and Fog
• It was listening to this music, at times so pathetic and sweet, that emotion would often lend almost supernatural beauty to his countenance, so that even Mr. Stendhall, the least enthusiastic of men, was wont to say with enthusiasm, _that never, in his whole life, had he seen any thing so beautiful and expressive as Lord Byron's look, or so sublime as his style of beauty_. Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English
• Stendhal seems to have been the first Frenchman who delcared himself a romantic: Je suis un romantique furieux c'est-à-dire, je suis pour Shakespeare contre ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE
• Like so many before him Truman Capote with In Cold Blood; Stendhal with the account of a minor event of 1827, the Berthet affair, at the origin of The Red and the Black, he decided to draw his inspiration from the facts and, without attempting anything resembling "exactness", without fooling the reader concerning the nature of his endeavor and its intent as fiction, used it as a mirror of society and of an era. Bernard-Henri Lévy: Alain Delon on Taddéï. Régis Jauffret Pilloried?
• In Grenoble he became a close friend of Henri Beyle, the famous French author better known by his pseudonym Stendhal.
• What Stendhal is saying is that none of us are romantic isolates; we are social animals, being watched by potential allies and enemies.