Through remarks about ‘lives,’ biographies and the genres that are related to them–panegyrics, funeral orations, notices, histories, etc.–this study deals with topics that go beyond the field of literature, such as history and historiography, philosophy, musical criticism and autobiography. Just as critics have brought to light questions of literary genre suggested in Stendhal’s novels and have uncovered the main trends with which novelistic elements can be associated, this study aims at contextualizing The Life of Haydn (1814), The Life of Napoleon (1817-1818), The Life of Rossini (1823) and The Life of Henry Brulard (1835-1836) within the evolution of the biography genre throughout time, and more particularly at the beginning of the Romantic era in France.

'Sobre este título' puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.This dissertation analyzes the generic questions raised by Stendhal’s biographies. She is also the translator of many books from the French, most notably Proust’s Swann’s Way and Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.

Her Collected Stories were published as a single volume in 2009, and in 2013 she was awarded an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit Medal for the Short Story, as well as the Man Booker International Prize.

LYDIA DAVIS is the author of seven collections of stories, including Break It Down, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant, and, most recently, Can’t and Won’t, as well as one novel, The End of the Story. Among his most important books are On Love, Lucien Leuwen, The Memoirs of an Egotist, and The Life of Henry Brulard. Stendhal's great novels The Red and the Black (1830) and The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) were largely ignored during his lifetime, and many of his works remained unfinished and were published only posthumously. Expelled from Italy for political reasons in 1821, he returned to Paris following the 1830 revolution, he secured the position, which he was to hold for the rest of his life, of French Consul to Civitavecchia. Stendhal took part in campaigns in Italy, Germany, Russia, and Austria, and then, after Napoleon's fall from power, settled in Milan,where he wrote books on art and music. At sixteen he set out for Paris, intending to pursue a career as an engineer, but instead enlisted in Napoleon's Army. Stendhal (1783–1842), the pen name of Henri Marie Beyle, was born into a prosperous family in Grenoble.

The Life of Henry Brulard by Stendhal