Becoming Stendhal by Hadley Suter - 9780813955124

Name: Becoming Stendhal by Hadley Suter - 9780813955124
Brand: University of Virginia Press

University of Virginia Press

Becoming StendhalThe Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist\nAuthor(s): Hadley Suter\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Virginia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Virginia Press\nISBN-13: 9780813955124, 978-0813955124\nSynopsis\nHow the master of French realism formulated a new, distinctly modern theory of authenticity and identity\n\n Is there such a thing as an authentic self? Can an author translate an authentic self onto the written page? Stendhalconsidered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of French realismaddressed these questions with style and acumen in his celebrated novels The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma at a time when authenticity was increasingly becoming a preoccupation of nineteenth-century French culture.\n\n In this book, Hadley Suter draws on Stendhal's novelsas well as his travel narratives, criticism, biographies, and private journalsto examine the writer's conception of authenticity as a theat.