Red and the Black, Volume I
by Stendhal
Chapter 1 of 31 00 - Introduction
- Running time
- 9 h 12 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- Derrick Coetzee, Gail Timmerman Vaughan, Kirsty Leishman, Martin Geeson, Nadine Eckert-Boulet and 3 others
- Translated by
- Horace B. Samuel
Chapters
About this recording
Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Balzac and Flaubert, Stendhal is quite often considered a writer that doesn't seem to fit a defined genre. Some say he's a Romantic, others that he's a Modernist and that Le Rouge et Le Noir is the first modern novel. On one point they are all agreed: the novel is a masterpiece that shows a young theology student - Julien Sorel - intelligent, handsome and who is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins. Stendhal presents the reader with a satirical plot that will involve you in passions, intrigues, last-minute reversals and, mostly, the hypocrisy by which society operates. (Summary by sailormoon)