Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
"A significant book on Stendhal the novelist and his relationship with his reader....Person's rich and coherent book is a thoroughly Stendhalian invitation to reading."--Nineteenth-Century French Studies