This major critical work by the great French novelist reveals
Stendhal's decisive role in the literary renaissance called
Romanticism. Written sixteen years before 'The Charterhouse of
Parma', it marked the beginning of his illustrious career and
established him at the forefront of the French Romantic movement.
The first part of 'Racine and Shakespeare' appeared as a pamphlet
in 1823, when Waterloo was still bitterly alive in the French mind.
In it, Stendhal vigorously championed the spontaneous vitality of
Shakespeare while condemning the rigid imitators of Corneille and
Racine. The second half of 'Racine and Shakespeare' appeared two
years later in answer to a speech against Romanticism by the
secretary of the Academie Francaise. It is a brilliant tour de
force, an exchange of letters between an old classicist and a young
Romanticiist, in which Stendhal defined Romanticism not only for
his age but for all time.
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