Original title: Le rouge et le noir: chronique du XIXe siècle
Human translation · Translated by Horace Barnet Samuel (†1950) · Source: Wikisource · Public domain
Some slight sketch of the life and character of Stendhal is particularly necessary to an understanding of Le Rouge et Le Noir ( The Red and the Black ) not so much as being the formal stuffing of which introductions are made, but because the book as a book stands in the most intimate relation to the author's life and character. The hero, Julien, is no doubt, viewed superficially, a cad, a scoundrel, an assassin, alb… Henri Beyle was born in 1783 in Grenoble in Dauphiny, the son of a royalist lawyer, situated on the borderland between the gentry and that bourgeoisie which our author was subsequently to chastise with that malice peculiar to those who spring themselves from the class which they despise. The boy's character was a compound of sensibility and hard rebelliousness, virility and introspection. Orphaned of his mother at t…Opening · Horace Barnet Samuel
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