A Pair of Yellow Gloves
Tim Parks: Stendhal’s ‘Italian Chronicles’, 19 October 2017
Italian Chronicles
by Stendhal, translated by Raymond MacKenzie.
Minnesota, 344 pp., £20.99, May 2017,978 1 5179 0011 3 Show More
by Stendhal, translated by Raymond MacKenzie.
Minnesota, 344 pp., £20.99, May 2017,
“... friends’ shortcomings, or their own transgressions. ‘I don’t think he was bad at heart,’ George Sand remarked of Beyle’s habitual cynicism and constant obscenities, ‘he made too much effort to seem so.’ Above all, Beyle wished to be free to feel, to give himself up to ‘agreeable passions’. Free to love and to make love. To other ... ”