Stendhal, La Chartreuse de Parme [The Charterhouse of Parma]

Peter Wagstaff (University of Bath)

Ed. by Nigel Harkness, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.05: French Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth-Century , 1800-1900.
Vol. editors: David Elwyn Evans (University of St Andrews), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Elisabeth Gerwin (University of Lethbridge), Nigel Harkness (University of Newcastle upon Tyne), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield), Jennifer Yee (University of Oxford)

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First circulation or publication 1839

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France (Country of Origin)

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In 1833 or 1834 Henri Beyle, better known under the pseudonym Stendhal, came across various Italian manuscripts containing tales from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A number of these he translated, rewrote and published both anonymously and pseudonymously at intervals between 1837 and 1839 in the

Revue des deux mondes

. A collected edition was published posthumously by his cousin and executor, Romain Colomb, in 1855 under the title

Chroniques italiennes

. One of the manuscripts provided the germ of an idea for the novel

La Chartreuse de Parme

[The Charterhouse of Parma] that Stendhal conceived in the autumn of 1838 and wrote (or rather dictated) in an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the space of seven weeks between 4 November and 25 December of that year. Now long…

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Citation: Wagstaff, Peter. "La Chartreuse de Parme". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 November 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11169, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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