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100 1 _aBoylesve, René,
_d1867-1926
245 1 0 _aRéflexions sur Stendhal
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-06
508 _aLaurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))
520 _aRéflexions sur Stendhal by René Boylesve is a collection of literary reflections and reading notes written in the early 20th century. It is a work of literary criticism that sketches a thoughtful, unsystematic portrait of Stendhal as a psychologist of passion and a fiercely independent observer, considering how his inner vision resists social conventions; the likely topic is Stendhal’s temperament, aesthetics, and the ethical-emotional creed often called “beylism.” The book moves through brief, pointed dossiers: on Stendhal’s paradoxical fame and solitary stance; on insights drawn from The Life of Henri Brulard (hatred of grandiloquence, judgments born of passion, Italian fervor, a romantic impulse that hardens into realism); on Léon Blum’s Stendhal et le beylisme (the primacy of the youthful self, heroes as autobiographical projections, energy rooted in emotion rather than utilitarian action, the elite and contradictory logic of “beylism,” distinctions among kinds of love, and a defense of Julien Sorel against the charge of arrivisme). Boylesve then weighs Sainte-Beuve, Taine, and Bourget, praising Stendhal’s psychological invention while correcting critical blind spots about his “anti-social” method and inner life. He closes with compact notes on The Charterhouse of Parma, admiring Fabrice’s blithe courage and the vivid, picturesque detail, yet faulting the melodramatic tangle of intrigue and the coolness of its emotional effect, suggesting the tale is essentially resolved once Fabrice begins to long for his prison. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Le Divan, 1929
653 _aStendhal, 1783-1842
856 4 _uhttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9613338z
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78379
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