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Read the Burton Raffel translation, which felt quite well done if not quite particularly French-sounding. Stendahl has an excellent sense for systems and power relations, which feature far more prominently than the impetus hero and his absurd antics. Some of the story elements feel a bit like a short cut, like Julien's perfect memory standing in for a more believable bourgeois success story. Similarly, the romances have plenty of believable elements that essentially run in montage to the ridicul
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