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Keates' Stendhal conforms very much to the negative image that I had developed of him after first having been swept away. Keates describes Stendhal as a highly unpleasant person. He felt a need to feel superior to everyone who surrounded him. He criticized their faults and seldom acknowledged their good points.

Independent 'Keates proves to be an alarmingly erudite guide. Please provide me with your latest book news, views and details of Waterstones’ special offers. Sunday Telegraph 'Keates has captured the historical sweep of his career and has a sure feel for the social milieux in which Stendhal lived. A biography of admirable pace and geniality.

This biography traces the life of Stendhal, from his early days in Grenoble, through to his life in Paris and the long periods he spent in Italy. Keates also examines Stendhal's work and presents an interesting image of the author of "Le Rouge et le Noir" and "La Chartreuse de Parme".

Complete summary of Jonathan Keates' Stendhal. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Stendhal. As Jonathan Keates observes, The central paradox of Stendhal’s position within the cultural perspective of his age must always be defined by his rigorously selective sympathy with its cult of sensation. A telling indication of Stendhal’s aesthetic predilections, which hovered between eighteenth and nineteenth century sensibilities, is the fact that in his musical tastes he preferred Neapolitan composer Domenico Cimarosa to Ludwig van Beethoven and published a gushing biography of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini in 1823.

Marie-Henri Beyle (French: ; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (UK: /ˈstɒ̃dɑːl/, US: /stɛnˈdɑːl, stænˈ-/; French: ), was a 19th-century French writer

Marie-Henri Beyle (French: ; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (UK: /ˈstɒ̃dɑːl/, US: /stɛnˈdɑːl, stænˈ-/; French: ), was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism.

Stendhal recorded his life constantly, surveying the peeling fresco of his memory through letters, diaries and .

Stendhal recorded his life constantly, surveying the peeling fresco of his memory through letters, diaries and autobiographical vignettes, in ways that might be thought to help a the biographer but actually present a nightmare of randomly noted judgements and experience.