Stendhal''s Violin - A Novelist and His Reader

Zusatztext `the lessons of Stendhal have not been lost on Roger Pearson and like the novels he has examined this critical work leaves the reader the pleasure of choosing while at the same time providing a sound intellectual and rational basis and a delicate tone of suggestiveness qui fait rever.'Zeits. fur frz Sprache u. Literatur Klappentext Stendhal lets his readers experience in the act of reading what his protagonists experience in the act of living, argues this original, well-written study about the relationship between novelist and reader. Novels discussed include Armance, Le Rouge et le Noir, Lucien Leuwen, and La Chartreuse de Parme. Zusammenfassung This new study of Stendhal's novels takes its title from Stendhal's dictum `Un roman est comme un archet, la caisse du violon qui rend les sons, c'est l'âme du lecteur.' Its central theme is the relationship between novelist and reader, as orchestrated in Armance, Le Rouge et le Noir, Lucien Leuwen and La Chartreuse de Parme.From the author's analyses of these novels it emerges that Stendhal plays upon the reader's reactions and makes him or her experience in the act of reading what his protagonists experience in the act of living.Well written, and without obscure theoretical terminology, Stendhal's Violin is aimed at both the first-degree scholar and specialist reader. It contains full discussion of the views of other critics, and presents individual, challenging new interpretations of Stendhal's novels.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Pearson, Roger (Fellow Pearson, Pearson Roger
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.1988
• EAN: 9780198158516
• ISBN: 978-0-19-815851-6
• No. of pages: 310
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form