![]() ![]() ![]() Julien Sorel, the flawed (or anti-) hero of The Red and the Black ( Le Rouge et le Noir), is the intelligent son of a provincial carpenter who puts his wits to use trying to climb Restoration France’s treacherous social ladder.Īmbition, says Stendhal, is “the very essence of his existence,” much as it is for his milieu, and through Julien’s exertions - brilliant and resourceful at times infuriatingly handicapped by social prejudice against the protagonist’s low birth at others - the author sets down one of the most psychologically forceful works in the canon. “Everything passed simply, decorously, and without affectation on his part,” is the entirety of Stendhal’s death scene for his man. 1831: Julien Sorel, in The Red and the BlackĪccording to Michel Crouzet,* literary scholar of Stendhal, it was on this date in 1831 that the protagonist of said French author’s magnum opus was guillotined. ![]()
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