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Stendhal's Italy : themes of political and religious satire / A. E. Greaves.

By: Greaves, A. E.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 1995Description: 190 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0859894460.Subject(s): Stendhal, 1783-1842 -- Views on Italy | Stendhal, 1783-1842. Chartreuse de Parme | Satire, French | Italy -- In literature | Italy -- Civilization -- 1789-1900DDC classification: 843.7
Contents:
Coup de foudre -- From tourist notes to comparative commentary: A tour through Italy; Rome, Naples et Florence en 1817; L'Italie en 1818 -- The arts, politics, and paradoxes: Histoire de la peinture en Italie; De l'amour; Vie de Rossini -- Travelogues, and problems of narrating: Rome, Naples et Florence (1826); Promenades dans Rome -- Letters and stories: The consular correspondence; Chroniques italiennes -- Fiction as satire: La Chartreuse de Parme -- Recueillement: From hope and fear set free?
Summary: Stendhal's fascination with Italy dates from his first visit to that country, as a teenager, with the 'liberating' French army of 1799. Throughout his career as a writer, Italy offered him countless opportunities for reflection upon matters artistic, political, religious, and personal. His incisive mind and the natural wit of his style combined easily to produce not only perceptive and sympathetic assessments of music and art, but also some trenchant political commentary.Summary: The essential thrust of this book is an examination of the origins and development of the satirical element of Stendhal's writing on Italy, which culminates with the creation of what many critics consider to be his finest achievement, the novel La Chartreuse de Parme.Summary: Tony Greaves adduces some of Stendhal's lesser-known, non-fictional 'Italian' works as essential ingredients in the understanding of where La Chartreuse comes from, telling how the different Italian themes of the novel emerge from their historical context.
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English text, extracts in French and Italian.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-186) and index.

1. Coup de foudre -- 2. From tourist notes to comparative commentary: A tour through Italy; Rome, Naples et Florence en 1817; L'Italie en 1818 -- 3. The arts, politics, and paradoxes: Histoire de la peinture en Italie; De l'amour; Vie de Rossini -- 4. Travelogues, and problems of narrating: Rome, Naples et Florence (1826); Promenades dans Rome -- 5. Letters and stories: The consular correspondence; Chroniques italiennes -- 6. Fiction as satire: La Chartreuse de Parme -- 7. Recueillement: From hope and fear set free?

Stendhal's fascination with Italy dates from his first visit to that country, as a teenager, with the 'liberating' French army of 1799. Throughout his career as a writer, Italy offered him countless opportunities for reflection upon matters artistic, political, religious, and personal. His incisive mind and the natural wit of his style combined easily to produce not only perceptive and sympathetic assessments of music and art, but also some trenchant political commentary.

The essential thrust of this book is an examination of the origins and development of the satirical element of Stendhal's writing on Italy, which culminates with the creation of what many critics consider to be his finest achievement, the novel La Chartreuse de Parme.

Tony Greaves adduces some of Stendhal's lesser-known, non-fictional 'Italian' works as essential ingredients in the understanding of where La Chartreuse comes from, telling how the different Italian themes of the novel emerge from their historical context.

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