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Hello. He was hardly a success in his lifetime.

One of his books sold just 17 copies in 11 years.

And yet, at the very end of his life, Marie-on-rebelle,

better known by his pen name, Stendahl, was recognized by the famous novelist Balzac as a genius.

Today we know him primarily for just two books, but thanks to those two works, the Red and the Black and the Charter House of Parma,

he is recognized as one of the key figures in the development of the novel.

What did he do, how did he do it, and what does it all mean?

The story of Stendahl today on the history of literature. Okay, here we go. Hello, everyone. Okay, here we go. Hello everyone, it's me, Jack, your host on this humble little

podcast. I'm so glad you join me today. It's been a rough summer. I've had some ups and downs and I'm sure you have as well.

I hope you are hanging in there. We're all going to make it through people. We just need to

keep our heads about us. If you're looking for a literary

project this summer and I know, I know there are plenty of literary projects to tackle, but

here's one I recommend. Read some Stendhal if you haven't before or maybe even if you have the

red and the charter house of Parma. I love them both. But you can also listen to our podcast today and maybe that will

inspire you to seek out those books or maybe you'll feel like you don't need to

read them and that's okay too. There are a lot of books out there. We all have our lists and we all try to get to one more book, one more author, one more thing to absorb. You'll never get to all of them. You just need to make each reading experience a great one.

That's the best you can do.

And if I have some value here,

as someone who has gone into this mine over and over and can report back.

That's how I feel sometimes.

I'm like someone who's gone into a thousand of these mines, more than a thousand actually, but let's say say a thousand I've gone in with my

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