AUERBACH, Erich
'Insofar as the serious realism of modern times cannot represent man otherwise as embedded in a total reality, political, social, and economic, which is concrete and constantly evolving - as is the case today in any novel or film - Stendhal is its founder.' (p. 463)
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Culture, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2003.
GIDE, André
'Stendhal has never provided my nourishment but I always come back. He is the cuttle fish on which I sharpen my beak.' (December 8, 1907, p. 255)*
Journal, NRF, Paris, 1939.
'Stendhal's writing has such an energetic style because he doesn't wait for a sentence to be perfectly formed in his head before writing it.' (November 27, 1941, p. 165)*
Journal, 1939-1942, NRF, Paris, 1946.
LESSING, Doris
'Opening a Stendhal after - you have to think - a far too long interval, there is, at least for me, a rush of exhilaration, as if you have turned a corner and look! - there's an old friend you haven't seen for a time and you have forgotten what an extraordinary being he is.'
Foreword to Memoirs of an Egotist, Stendhal, Hesperus Press, 2003
VALERY, Paul
'One never gets over Stendhal. I can think of no greater compliment.' (pp. 137-139)*
Variété II, Stendhal, NRF, Paris, 1930.
ZOLA, Emile
'Stendhal is above all a psychologist.' (p. 254)*
‘For me, Stendhal is not an observer who begins by observation so as to reach the truth by means of logic. He is instead a logician who begins with logic and often achieves the truth by means of observation.’ (p. 256)*
‘Nobody before him [Stendhal] has described love with more truth.’ (p. 261)*
Écrits sur le roman, Livre de Poche, Paris 2004.
*In French in the original. Translated by J. J. Haldane.
'Insofar as the serious realism of modern times cannot represent man otherwise as embedded in a total reality, political, social, and economic, which is concrete and constantly evolving - as is the case today in any novel or film - Stendhal is its founder.' (p. 463)
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Culture, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2003.
GIDE, André
'Stendhal has never provided my nourishment but I always come back. He is the cuttle fish on which I sharpen my beak.' (December 8, 1907, p. 255)*
Journal, NRF, Paris, 1939.
'Stendhal's writing has such an energetic style because he doesn't wait for a sentence to be perfectly formed in his head before writing it.' (November 27, 1941, p. 165)*
Journal, 1939-1942, NRF, Paris, 1946.
LESSING, Doris
'Opening a Stendhal after - you have to think - a far too long interval, there is, at least for me, a rush of exhilaration, as if you have turned a corner and look! - there's an old friend you haven't seen for a time and you have forgotten what an extraordinary being he is.'
Foreword to Memoirs of an Egotist, Stendhal, Hesperus Press, 2003
VALERY, Paul
'One never gets over Stendhal. I can think of no greater compliment.' (pp. 137-139)*
Variété II, Stendhal, NRF, Paris, 1930.
ZOLA, Emile
'Stendhal is above all a psychologist.' (p. 254)*
‘For me, Stendhal is not an observer who begins by observation so as to reach the truth by means of logic. He is instead a logician who begins with logic and often achieves the truth by means of observation.’ (p. 256)*
‘Nobody before him [Stendhal] has described love with more truth.’ (p. 261)*
Écrits sur le roman, Livre de Poche, Paris 2004.
*In French in the original. Translated by J. J. Haldane.