Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 – March 23, 1842), better known by his penname Stendhal, was a 19th century French writer. He is known for his intense analysis of his characters' psychological science & for the dryness of his writing-style. He is considered one of a first & earliest practioners of the realistic form, and his better novels come lupus erythematosus Rouge et le Noir (1830; The Red and the Black) and La Chartreuse de Parme (1839; The Charterhouse of Parma).

Biography
Innate within Grenoble, France, he had the miserable childhood around stifling provincial France however blossomed in the armed forces & theatrical worlds of the First French Empire. He travelled extensively within Germany and visited Russia (as a portion of Napoleon's army), but formed the particular attachment to Italy, where he spent great deal of the remainder of his career, serving when French consul and writing.

Beyle utilized a anonym "Stendhal", purportedly chosen as an anagram of "Shetland" (although Georges Perec may have invented this explanation - information to lupus erythematosus Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) feature extensively in Perec's bare survive novel 53 jours). As an alternative, a few scholars suppose he borrowed his nom de plume from the German city of Stendal as a homage for Johann Joachim Winckelmann.

Contemporary readers did non fully appreciate Stendhal's naturalistic style when you took a Romantic period in which he lived; he was non fully appreciated until a beginning of the 20th century. He dedicated his writing to "the Happy Few", on to victims world health organization would a single day recognise his have genius. In todays world, Stendhal's works attract attention for their irony and psychological and historical aspects.

Stendhal was an inspiring fan of music, particularly a composers Cimarosa, Mozart, and Rossini, the latter of whom he wrote an extensive life history, Vie delaware Rossini (1824), now further valued for its wide-ranging musical criticism than for its historical accuracy.

He died inside Paris in 1842 and is interred in the Cimetière de Montmartre.

Stendhal's brief, saucy memoir, ''Souvenirs 500'Egotisme (Memoirs of an Swellhead) was published posthumously around 1892.

Works

Novels: Armance (1827) lupus erythematosus Rouge et le Noir (1830) (variously translated when Vermilion & Black, Red & Black, The Red and the Black) La Chartreuse de Parme (1839) (The Charterhouse of Parma) Lucien Leuwen (1835-) (unfinished, promulgated 1894) Lamiel (1840-) (unfinished, promulgated 1889) The Life of Henry Brulard (1835-1836) (published 1890)

Novelette: L'Abbesse de Castro (1832) The Duchess of Palliano Vittoria Accoramboni Vanina Vanini The Cenci

Nonfiction De L'Affair (1822) (On Love) Souvenirs five hundred'Égotisme (published 1892) (Memoirs of an Egotist)

His more works include short stories, journalism, travel books (among the two Rome, Naples et Florence & Promenades dans Rome''), the renowned collectiin of essays in Italian painting, critical essays on Racine and Shakespeare, and life of many large numbers of his period, including Napoleon, Haydn, Mozart, and Metastasio.