Parm abode. Stendhal

One of the most striking French authors of the 19th century, Henri Marie Bayl, who wrote under the pseudonym Stendhal, during his lifetime, he did not enjoy the recognition of criticism or the success of the shine reader. Nevertheless, Merim, who experienced the influence of Stendhal, who later took the place in the pantheon of the classics of European literature, highly appreciated his work, Goethe and Pushkin were read out by his novel “Red and Black”.

The action of the last novel by Stendhal “Parm abode”, enthusiastically adopted by Balzac, occurs in Italy, a country of strong passions and a great culture. His theme is the fate of the generation of Italians, which entered into life at the end of the 18th century, passionately dreaming of the independence of the Motherland, but the battle of Waterloo marked the collapse of enthusiastic illusions. The tension of events (murders, imprisonment, escape, clarification of the secrets of birth and death), the deep psychological experiences of the heroes, for the sake of love for betrayal and sacrifice the most expensive, as well as an impressive image of the historical events of that era, turn the novel into an undoubted masterpiece of world literature.