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The novel tells about the social rise of a poor young man, Julien Sorel, in a conservative, counter-revolutionary and authoritarian regime in the era of the re-establishment of the monarchy after the fall of Napoleon and the return of the Bourbon dynasty
Historical and psychological novel by Stendhal, published in 1830. The full title of the novel is "Red and Black, Chronicle of the 19th Century". The protagonist is Julien Sorel. The work is a bildungsroman that follows his upbringing and life path.
Flipping through old Italian chronicles, Stendhal finds motifs for a series of his novels in which he depicts the passions of the Middle Ages and the unrestrained madness of the Renaissance.
His Lives and Works is the second volume in a series of revised, definitive editions of the horror story collections of Thomas Ligotti.