{"product_id":"becoming-stendhal-1","title":"Becoming Stendhal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow the master of French realism formulated a new, distinctly modern theory of authenticity and identity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs there such a thing as an authentic self? Can an author translate an authentic self onto the written page? Stendhal—considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of French realism—addressed these questions with style and acumen in his celebrated novels \u003ci\u003eThe Red and the Black\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Charterhouse of Parma\u003c\/i\u003e at a time when authenticity was increasingly becoming a preoccupation of nineteenth-century French culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Hadley Suter draws on Stendhal's novels—as well as his travel narratives, criticism, biographies, and private journals—to examine the writer's conception of authenticity as a theater composed of three distinct performances: the private, the social, and the written. In accessible terms, Suter argues that Stendhal's notion of authenticity appears not so much as an ontological conundrum as a crisis of literacy—the story of how the self relates to the written word. \u003ci\u003eBecoming Stendhal\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how the famed author became the first proponent in Western literature of our prevailing idea of the authentic self.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57254949257560,"sku":"9780813955117","price":104.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780813955117_01483a82-fa45-448b-800f-06f3d6ce92f2.jpg?v=1779948955","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/becoming-stendhal-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}