Adored by Proust, admired by Valery, envied by Gide, Stendhal was far too prepossessing a writer to satisfy anyone…as merely a novelist

Richard Howard

The Telegraph

by Stendhal

Translated from French by Louise Varese

The Telegraph takes up from where The Green Huntsman left off with the career of Lucien Leuwen, the fashionable young cavalry officer with “republican” leanings but aristocratic tastes. When his father, an influential banker, places him in a government office, Lucien is quickly involved in a series of intrigues. He is required to assist in the suppression of a murder, fix a provincial election, and to advance the interest of his father’s cabal, carry on a cold-blooded love affair with the most beautiful hostess in Paris. Through Lucien’s eyes, Stendhal uncovers the moral decay of a society in which a failing government keeps itself in power by force and trickery.

Paperback(published Jan, 01 2001)

ISBN
9780811219013
Price US
23.95
Portrait of Stendhal

Stendhal

Early 19th century French novelist

Adored by Proust, admired by Valery, envied by Gide, Stendhal was far too prepossessing a writer to satisfy anyone…as merely a novelist

Richard Howard