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A Lion for Love : A Critical Biography of Stendhal - Robert Alter

A Lion for Love

A Critical Biography of Stendhal

By: Robert Alter, Carol Cosman (As told to)

Paperback | 8 October 1986

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Traces the life of the nineteenth century French novelist, attempts to portray his complex personality, and analyzes his major works.
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A A Lion for Love is a model of critical biography--a fascinating biography of a fascinating man. -- Larry McMurty Washington Star The publication of A Lion for Love, by Robert Alter with the collaboration of his wife, Carol Cosman, supplies at last a fine, perceptive, concise critical biography of Stendhal, written with a clarity and good sense worthy of its subject...Alter and Cosman...wear their erudition with becoming lightness. -- John Simon New Leader This excellent short biography...brings out both the charms and the complexities of Stendhal. The tone of the book is discreetly admiring, but ironic enough when need be to remind one of the saving and consummate irony of its subject. -- John Sturrock New York Times Book Review A Lion for Love is a splendid example of a rare and difficult critical genre: a biography which chronicles and interprets development of a character of complex imaginative genius, and at the same time introduces a lucid critical reading of his works. -- Julia Epstein Washington Post Book World [An] excellent and balanced biography. -- Anita Brookner Times Literary Supplement

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