tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post822289319549239406..comments2024-03-28T07:13:10.797+00:00Comments on TONE DEAF: Stendhal is raunchierRoderick Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-61199359386177411382013-12-04T10:56:35.073+00:002013-12-04T10:56:35.073+00:00Sir Hugh: Forget De l'Amour, all you need to k...Sir Hugh: Forget De l'Amour, all you need to know and read are R&B and The Charterhouse of Parma. They are energetic, comprehensive masterpieces, and you can quote me.<br /><br />"Hip-conscious." Better than DT. I'm not sure he would picked up the other, more modern, meaning of hip.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-17808157162763983822013-12-02T10:57:08.460+00:002013-12-02T10:57:08.460+00:00"hip-concious suit" - a bit of Dylan Tho..."hip-concious suit" - a bit of Dylan Thomas influence here?Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-39974256189642345022013-12-02T09:54:54.805+00:002013-12-02T09:54:54.805+00:00We studied R and B, (Scarlet and Black in my versi...We studied R and B, (Scarlet and Black in my version) in our book study group. I agree with what you say about the sex content, but looking through notes I kept (probably from Wikipedia) I find the following:<br /><br />“In 1822 Stendhal published De L’Amour, “the driest book about love ever written”, 17 copies sold in 11 years four kinds of love: the physical, the tasteful, love from vanity, and love from passion, which is the source of highest happiness.”<br /><br />It doesn’t credit the “dryest” quotation so one can’t decide on its credence.<br /><br />Thank you for bringing this back to my attention - our current subject is focusing on writing techniques and one of the categories is the intrusive narrator (author), and I find that Stendhal comes in as a first person commenter several times, so it will be a good example to introduce next Thursday.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.com