Red and the Black, Volume II
by Stendhal
Chapter 1 of 45 01 - The Pleasures of the Country
- Running time
- 12 h 15 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- Chiquito Crasto, Leni, Lynne T, Malone (1945 - 2023), Nadine Eckert-Boulet and 4 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)