"On Love" by Stendhal is a deep look into the world of romantic love, written in the 1800s, where the author looks at all the different types and steps of love, like “passion-love” and “vanity-love”. The book studies the mental parts of love, like "crystallisation," which is when people in love imagine amazing qualities in the person they love, making them like that person even more. The beginning of the book shows that the author wants to take apart and study love in a careful way, explaining the different types of love and using stories from the past and his own life as examples setting the stage as it explores how reality and imagination mix together in relationships, showing readers Stendhal's unique perspective on affection.
On Love
By Stendhal
Explore a world where love is dissected and its beautiful illusions revealed.
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About the AuthorMarie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme, he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism. A self-proclaimed egotist, he coined the same characteristic in his characters' "Beylism".
Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme, he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism. A self-proclaimed egotist, he coined the same characteristic in his characters' "Beylism".
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