A masterful portrait of France of the early nineteenth century.
Red and black recounts the birth, ascension and fall of a hero, Julien Sorel, who, son of a humble carpenter, stands out for his intellectual intelligence and concerns, and dreams of socially ascending and fleeing the provincial and rural world that surrounds him. But to achieve this, he must betray many of his true feelings, which will model the character during his intense vital trajectory: the love that becomes self -love, the passion that becomes ambition, generosity and enthusiasm that fades and hypocrisy , tireless companion.
Henry Bayle, Stendhal¸ makes a masterful portrait of the France of the early nineteenth century that makes red and black a key work of contemporary literature: an old regime that resists dying after the overturn that the French revolution meant, A church that does not want to lose...read more
