Love (Classics)

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Fascinating, but a half-finished patchwork quilt - By: , 15 Dec 1999
Stendhal's 'Love' was written to exorcise the demons of his unrequited three year passion for Metilde Dembowski. Their relationship, such as it was, ended abruptly when he was expelled from Milan by the Austrian authorities in 1821. Nothing written by Stendhal could be wholly without interest, given his zest for life, enquiring mind & strangely modern sensibility, which led him into endless self analysis. But this book is something of a half-finished patchwork quilt. By the end he is simply unloading the raw material - thoughts, insights, anecdotes - which he began by trying to work into a continuous argument. Worth a try if you are a Stendhal devotee, but otherwise stick to the novels.

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