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The Life of Henry Brulard
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The Life of Henry Brulard
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The Life of Henry Brulard
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is the autobiography of one of France's greatest writers, Stendhal, author of
and
. Here, writing at white heat and with such ferocious honesty and indignation that his book was to remain unpublishable for more than a century after its composition, Stendhal revisits his unhappy childhood in a stuffy provincial town and bares his rebellious heart. His adored mother, who died when he was only seven; a father devoted only to his own social ambitions; the aunt whose daily cruelties passed for care: these are among the indelible portraits in a work that captures the sights, sounds, places, and characters of Stendhal's youth, its pleasures and sorrows, with preternatural clarity and immediacy. Full of dazzling images and burning emotions,
is a vivid memoir that is also an extraordinary work of the imagination.