Stendhal biography cortazar

  • The French author Marie-Henri Beyle used 170 pen names during his career.
  • "Politics in a work of literature," wrote Stendhal, "is like a pistol-shot in the middle of a concert, something loud and vulgar, and yet a thing to which it is.
  • In 1972, Julio Cortázar published a small book called Prosa del Observatorio (Barcelona: Lumen), about his visit to the 18th century observatory built by the.

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    On Love – Stendhal

    Crystallization

    Main article: Crystallization (love)

    In Stendhal’s 1822 classic On Love he describes or compares the “birth of love”, in which the love object is ‘crystallized’ in the mind, as being a process similar or analogous to a trip to Rome. In the analogy, the city of Bologna represents indifference andRome represents perfect love:

    Stendhal’s depiction of “crystallization” in the process of falling in love.

    When we are in Bologna, we are entirely indifferent; we are not concerned to admire in any particular way the person with whom we shall perhaps one day be madly in love; even less is our imagination inclined to overrate their worth. In a word, in Bologna “crystallization” has not yet begun. When the journey begins, love departs. One leaves Bologna, climbs the Apennines, and takes the road to Rome. The departure, according to Stendhal, has nothing to do with one’s will; it is an instinctive

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    Posts from the ‘Stendhal’ Category

    The Gridded Lover

    [from Schwindel. Gefühle]

    In March 1988, two years before W.G. Sebald’s book Schwindel. Gefühle was published, an early version of the first chapter appeared in Manuskripte: Zeitschrifte für Literatur 99. Titled Berg oder das…, this piece is devoted to the French writer Marie Henri Beyle (better known as Stendhal, the name he used as an author). After nearly twenty years of writing about literature, this was the one of first times that Sebald had ever published a piece of his own prose fiction. When my copy of Manuskripte arrived from a used book dealer in Germany I did a quick visual comparison between the periodical version and the book and found several differences. But one change immediately caught my eye. On page 16 of Schwindel. Gefühle (Vertigo in English), Sebald includes a portrait of Angela Pietragrua, one of the important loves of Stendhal’s life. Surprisingly, i

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    Posts from the ‘Julio Cortázar’ Category

    Slow Travel, with Restrictions

    Every expedition assumes that in some way Marco Polo, Columbus or Shackleton had not lost touch with their inner child.

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    We dedicate this expedition and its chronicle
    to all the world’s nutcases
    and especially to the English gentleman
    whose  name we do not recall and who in the eighteenth
    century walked backwards from
    London to Edinburgh singing
    Anabaptist hymns.

    For the sake of argument, I would propose that the most intriguing travel narratives are those with the more extreme limitations.   My favorite example of the genre is Xavier de Maistre’s A Journey around my Room, first published in 1795, which is the narrative of the author’s travels around the room in which he was imprisoned for forty-two days as a result of a “dueling incident”.  (In 2004, aftonstjärnan Press issued a wonderful paperback edition of dem Maistre’s travelogue, accompan