Status Updates From La Certosa di Parma

“‘O que se chama amor", acrescentou, "seria então mais uma mentira? Eu amo, sem dúvida, assim como tenho bom apetite às seis horas! Seria o amor essa propensão um tanto vulgar, com que esses mentirosos teriam feito o amor de Otelo, o amor de Tancredo?’”

finalement j'ai repris, c'est très très sympa

Balzac et lui ont tellement une dent contre les gens qui se poudrent les cheveux que ça devient un problème pour moi aussi

Page 194 kindle

Me encanta el chisme

Ik heb genoten van Stendhals De kartuize van Parma, vooral om zijn scherpe spot met de gewoonten en zeden van zijn tijdgenoten. Met ironie tekent hij de benepen hofintriges, de oppervlakkige ambitie van politici en de onverbeterlijke ijdelheid van aristocraten. Zo wordt de hoofdpersoon Fabrice vaak omringd door figuren die meer bezig zijn met uiterlijk vertoon dan met echte waarden. De parodie op de bureaucratie van

On 15 May 1796, General Bonaparte made his entry into Milan at the head of a youthful army which had just crossed the bridge at Lodi and let the world know that after all these years, Caesar and Alexander had a successor. Just a ridiculous opening line.

obligée de le rendre à la bibliothèque, je le récupère très bientôt

j'ai 10 jours pour le terminer je suis tellement foutue

I dunno why, but while I know this is actively good I'm just not really enjoying it...

This classic is very different from any other I have read. Any opinions?

რატომღაც კიდე 170 გვერდია ჩემთან მაგრამ იყოს დდ

დიდი ხანია წყვილის ერთად ყოფნისთვის არ მიგულშემატკივრია დდ

ვახ ჩამთრევია საკმმაოდ რა

I never finished the Red and the Black, so not sure why I thought I'd manage this--especially as an on my Kindle by the pool read...

შარიდან შარში რასაც ქვია

Excellent opening chapter (so dense with exposition it's hard to keep up) has drifted into more standard historical fiction fare, but good stuff so far.

"از چهره مرد عاشقی که معشوق خود را از دست داده، نشان خنده محو و ناپدید می‌شود."

ბარი ლინდონს მაგონებს მთავარი პერსონაჟი რაღაცით

آه از آن دردی که ز عشق خیزد، که به شبی، طراوتِ نوجوانی را به پژمردگیِ پیری بدل سازد.

این کتاب خیلی بد ترجمه شده :(

c'est booon on commence à parler d'amour je vais pouvoir enchaîner les pages

il est fou ce fabrice (tant mieux pour lui)

je sens que ça va être une dinguerie ce livre

Zajímavé zatím, odehrává se na dvorech a tak, ale proč pan Stendhal ve svém vypravování používá pořád jen tituly postav je mi záhadou, jakože to je jenom markýza, hraběnka, vevodkyně, kníže atd. A pravá sranda začíná, když se vévodkyne vdá za hraběte a najednou má jeho titul a odstehuje se na nový dvůr, takže všechny ty tituly jsou jiných lidí, prostě trošku confusing lol

"Why should be consider Balzac's novels more profoundly historical than Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma, for example, the very epitome of the historical novel, with its popular uprisings, its court intrigues, its despots, and its Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic background" - Antinomies of Realism, Fredric Jameson.

"Fokelberg, the great Swedish sculptor, Tenerani from Rome, and Marchesi, from Milan, had been working for a year on ten bas-reliefs representing as many nobel acts in the life of that truly great man Crescentius." p. 442

Los pendejos de hoy tendrían que leer esto para entender que la guerra no es noble, ni tampoco un ideal al cual aspirar. 💀

Et c’est reparti pour un tour

Acho que a mensagem essencial é esta: entre o tédio e a insanidade, há um terreno fértil, habitado por seres nobres, de sãos sentimentos e ideais elevados. Emergindo da juventude demasiado romântico e idealista, o jovem Fabrício é como que impulsionado pela sua forma de ser de peripécia em peripécia. E a deusa fortuna serve bem quem, apesar da ingenuidade, mantem um bom espírito. E constrói-se experiência e carácter