Stendahl (Marie-Henri Beyle)
Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels
Le Rouge et le Noir
(The Red and the Black, 1830) and
La Chartreuse de Parme
(The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839).
“The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.”
Stendahl (Marie-Henri Beyle)