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,
“... There are so many Stendhals – art historian, music critic, travel writer, novelist, political pundit, opera buff, soldier, bureaucrat, diplomat, sparkling conversationalist and incorrigible womaniser – that the reader may despair of conceiving any overall project undertaken by the man baptised Marie-Henri Beyle in 1783. Aside from ‘Stendhal’ there were scores of pseudonyms, any number of unfinished writings and thousands of letters and journal pages in which Beyle often signs himself or even refers to himself using a variety of other names ... ”