Edito de La Cartuja De Parma (Abridged)"A fierce social critique. The celebrated French novelist Henry Beyle who is known by the pseudonym of Stendhal, had a universal culture that allowed him not only to devote himself to criticism and to write a few excellent biographies of composers of the age, but also to create some novels that are considered among the summits of the genre. In his final novel, The Charterhouse of Parma, the author shows the disappointment of an idealistic young man when everything that he believed in ends up being destroyed. The irony is that when he enters in a Carthusian monastery, in search of peace, he does not achieve it even there. It is a work of great beauty, with a lyrical vision of the world, with an exciting plot, which with ?The red and the black?, has the honor of being the greatest book by the immortal writer. Its place among the most refined works of western literature is indisputable. " Lire la suite