Love -

Stendhal

Penguin Classics

2004

327 páginas

10h 54m

ISBN-13: 9780140443073

A timeless treatise on the unique power of human emotion, Stendhal's Love is translated by Gilbert and Suzanne Sale with an introduction by Jean Stewart and B.C.J.G. Knight in Penguin Classics.

In 1818, when he was in his mid-thirties, Stendhal met and fell passionately in love with the beautiful Mathilde Dembowski. She, however, was quick to make it clear that she did not return his affections, and in his despair he turned to the written word to exorcise his love and explain his feelings. The result is an intensely personal dissection of the process of falling - and being - in love: a unique blend of poetry, anecdote, philosophy, psychology and social observation. Bringing together the conflicting sides of his nature, the deeply emotional and the coolly analytical, Stendhal created a work that is both acutely personal and universally applicable.

This translation retains all the colour and passion of the original and is accompanied buy the author's original prefaces and appendices. In their introduction, Jean Stewart and B.C.J.G. Knight discuss the relationship between Stendhal and his beloved and explore his views on feminism, education and society.

Resenhas (1)

3.5 (Bom)

Resumidamente o livro, como bem retrata o título é sobre amor; como surgiu, as etapas, as formas. É um livro bom e interessante, apesar de enfadonho às vezes. Li traduzido para o inglês, então talvez seja por isso. Mas serviu para aprender vocabulário já tenho muitas leituras em inglês pendentes.