The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830 = Le Rouge Et Le Noir (Modern Library) - Hardcover

Stendhal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679642846 ISBN 13: 9780679642848

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2003

Synopsis

During the Bourbon Restoration, Julien Sorel disregards all moral codes as he attempts to accumulate power.

About this title

Review:

"[Burton Raffel's] exciting new translation of The Red and the Black blasts Stendhal into the twenty-first century."
--Salon.com

About the Author:

Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) was born in Grenoble in 1783. He served in Napoleon’s cavalry and thereafter lived in Italy and Paris, where he wrote many books, including On Love, the autobiographical Life of Henri Brulard, The Charterhouse of Parma (which he wrote in fifty-two days), and The Red and the Black. He died in 1842.

Burton Raffel is a distinguished professor of humanities at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His many translations include Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel, winner of the 1991 French-American Foundation Translation Prize, Chrétien de Troyes’s Arthurian Romances, Cervantes’s Don Quijote, and Balzac’s Père Goriot. His translation of Beowulf has sold more than a million copies.

Diane Johnson is the author of ten novels—most recently Le Mariage and Le Divorce—two books of essays, two biographies, and the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s classic film The Shining. She has been a finalist four times for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0679642846
• ISBN 13: 9780679642848
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 560