Inglise keelne kirjand Stendhal-ist
the province of Dauphiné back in France. In 1814, when the French empire fell, he decided to settle in
Italy.
But the more authentic Stendhal is to be found elsewhere, and above all in a cluster of favourite ideas:
the hostility to the concept of "ideal beauty," the notion of modernity, and the exaltation of energy,
passion, and spontaneity. His personal philosophy, to which he himself gave the name of "Beylisme"
(after his real family name, Beyle) stressed the importance of the "pursuit of happiness" by combining
enthusiasm with rational skepticism, lucidity with willful surrender to lyric emotions. "Beylisme," as
he understood it, meant cultivating a private sensibility while developing the art of hiding and
protecting it.
Charterhouse of Parma is Stendhal's other masterpiece. It fuses elements of Renaissance chronicles,
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