Book Rec of the Day 3/24/2007

YOU’VE NEVER READ STENDHAL?

“[This] superior new translation makes it possible to understand why the novel itself continues to be so fresh and sustaining.”—The New York Times Book Review

“An epic tale of war, love, sex, politics, and religion...an action-packed narrative.”—The New Yorker

If you’ve never read Stendhal start with the story of Fabrizio de Dongo, the restless aristocrat. His exploits on the battlefields of France and his passions in the court of Parma are vibrant again, thanks to Richard Howard’s sparkling recent translation.

THE CHARTERHOUSE OF PARMA, by Stendhal, translated by Richard Howard (1839; Modern Library, 2000)