STENDHAL(Marie-Henri Beyle) was born in Grenoble in 1783. He served
in Napoleon's cavalry and thereafter lived in Italy and Paris,
where he wrote many books, including On Love, the autobiographical
Life of Henri Brulard, The Charterhouse of Parma (which he wrote in
fifty-two days), and The Red and the Black. He died in 1842.
BURTON RAFFEL is a distinguished professor of humanities at the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His many translations include
Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel, winner of the 1991
French-American Foundation Translation Prize, Chretien de Troyes's
Arthurian Romances, Cervantes's Don Quijote, and Balzac's P re
Goriot. His translation of Beowulf has sold more than a million
copies.
DIANE JOHNSON Is the author of ten novels-most recently Le Mariage
and Le Divorce-two books of essays, two biographies, and the
screenplay for Stanley Kubrick's classic film The Shining. She has
been a finalist four times for the Pulitzer Prize and the National
Book Award.
“[Burton Raffel’s] exciting new translation of The Red and the
Black blasts Stendhal into the twenty-first century.”
—Salon.com
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