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).
“Il procedimento ordinario di questo secolo decimonono é che quando un uomo potente e nobile incontra un uomo di cuore lo uccide,lo imprigiona,lo esilia e l'umilia siffattamente che l'altro commette la sciocchezza di morirne di dolore.”