Stendhal

[ sten-dahl, stan-; French stahn-dal ]

/ stɛnˈdɑl, stæn-; French stɑnˈdal /

noun

Marie Henri Beyle,1783–1842, French novelist and critic.

Example sentences from the Web for stendhal

Like Flaubert, Tolstoy and Stendhal greatly admired Walter Scott.

The Birth of the Novel |Nick Romeo |November 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Stendhal has written that a classicist is a dead romanticist.

Ivory Apes and Peacocks |James Huneker
Recently a cahier—incomplete to be sure, but indubitably Stendhal's—was found and printed.

Egoists |James Huneker
Stendhal, too, compared it to the finest valleys of Piedmont.

Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy |Francis Miltoun

Stendhal and Schopenhauer could have shaken hands on the score of their unpopularity—and about 1880 on their sudden recrudescence.

Egoists |James Huneker
Such, for instance, are the high priests who have proclaimed Stendhal for a prophet of Naturalism.

Notes on Life and Letters |Joseph Conrad

British Dictionary definitions for stendhal

Stendhal

/ (French stɛ̃dal) /

noun

original name Marie Henri Beyle. 1783–1842, French writer, who anticipated later novelists in his psychological analysis of character. His two chief novels are Le Rouge et le noir (1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (1839)

Cultural definitions for stendhal

Stendhal

[ (sten-dahl) ]

The nom de plume of the nineteenth-century French writer and critic Henry Marie Bayle. A major influence on the development of the modern novel, Stendhal's romantic, psychologically realistic works include The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma.

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