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The Charterhouse of Parma (Penguin Classics)

By: Stendhal
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0140440615
ISBN-13: 9780140440614
Released: 28 Nov 1974
RRP: £8.99
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unreadable translation - By: N. Housley, 18 Apr 2008
I had a go at this classic because it's Alfred Brendel's favourite novel. All I can say is he can't have read this new translation by John Sturrock. It's atrocious -- unbelievably clunky. I got to p. 67 before giving up.
Parma Chameleon - By: , 22 Apr 2005
This book sits in my top ten novels of alll time, next to the likes of Anna Karenina, War & Peace, Middlemarch, Crime & Punishment, The Karamazov Brothers, & of course the Red & the Black.

Why? Like the other authors of this select crowd, there's nothing about human behaviour Stendhal didn't understand. Dostoevsky will tell you alll about the seamier side of life, Stendhal tells you about love - love in alll its glory, fragility & pain - & he tells you about it as no one else can, with an empathy of startling depth. He wrote it in only about six weeks, too - not bad for a masterpiece of this calibre. Read the Red & the Black & On Love too, if you like this.