Biography of Stendhal Frederick

He was born in Grenoble in the south of France in the family of a lawyer. When the writer was 7 years old, he lost his mother. The father was a very callous and rude man, so the tender nature of the boy reached for his grandfather on the mother line, who instilled the boy ideals of education: a craving for knowledge and serving his homeland, love of art and literature.

At the age of 13, the boy was sent to study at the Central School of Grenoble, where he was prophesied by the future of the engineer, as the abilities for matimatics and other exact sciences were clearly expressed. The personality of Napoleon, who was knocked out of the lower classes of society, this example played the main role in the fact that the young man joined the army of Napoleon, with which many countries: Germany, Poland, Austria, and Russia played a great influence.

After the fall of Napoleon, the restoration period began: the aristocrats regained their power, tried to resume the old orders, that is, their privileges. They pursued Napoleon like -minded people, so Stendhal was forced to leave his homeland and emigrate to Italy, where his literary activity began, at first he wrote books about the art of Italy. Although for Baile this country was a stranger, it became another homeland for him, moreover, in Italy, his largest novels take place in Italy.

He was simply delighted with this country: the Italian opera, the music of Chimarose and the painting of Correusjo. Stendhal was delighted with the Italians and their temperament, considered him more natural than French. Italy, especially Rome and Milan, fell in love with him that he even suggested caring on his grave stone of the word: "Enrico Beyle, Milanese" "Enrico Bayil, Milanets." And he also loved Italian women, since that time his whole life is just memoirs of love adventures in Italy.

Returning to France, he begins to write arts: “Armans”, “Vanina Vanini”, “Red and Black”. In the city, he again goes to Italy, already like a French consul, to the town of Chivita-festival, where he continues to write the novel “Parms of Monastery”. Sudden death from a heart attack on March 22 prevented the two novels Lucien Leven and Lamel. However, the writer did not immediately become famous and beloved, the path to the top of literature was long and thorny.

Stendhal said that he was writing for units, and that Glory would come to him only after and was right. Most likely, his main problem was in the inconsistence of the sterotypes of that literary time and the genre in which he created. The passion for personalities putting themselves in the Absolute, such as Napoleon did not correspond to the canons of that time, but it could not be called a romanticist.

Stendhal lacked the epic scope of Hugo equal to the sentimentality of Lamartine. And only when these geniuses of the pen left the scene, it became clearly visible what the peculiarity of Stendhal's works was, his skate was psychological realism. In the work of Stendhal, two thematic lines can be traced: the modern French reality after the great French revolution of the work: “Armans”, “Lucien Leven”, “Red and Black”.

Italy of the book about the art "Vanin Vanini", "Parm Monastery".

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