{"product_id":"becoming-stendhal-the-performance-of-authenticity-and-the-making-of-a-novelist-paperback","title":"Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHadley Suter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow the master of French realism formulated a new, distinctly modern theory of authenticity and identity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs there such a thing as an authentic self? Can an author translate an authentic self onto the written page? Stendhal--considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of French realism--addressed these questions with style and acumen in his celebrated novels \u003ci\u003eThe Red and the Black\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Charterhouse of Parma\u003c\/i\u003e at a time when authenticity was increasingly becoming a preoccupation of nineteenth-century French culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Hadley Suter draws on Stendhal's novels--as well as his travel narratives, criticism, biographies, and private journals--to examine the writer's conception of authenticity as a theater composed of three distinct performances: the private, the social, and the written. In accessible terms, Suter argues that Stendhal's notion of authenticity appears not so much as an ontological conundrum as a crisis of literacy--the story of how the self relates to the written word. \u003ci\u003eBecoming Stendhal\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how the famed author became the first proponent in Western literature of our prevailing idea of the authentic self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHadley Suter\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer of French at Barnard College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 258\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 22, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45664460669030,"sku":"9780813955124","price":62.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/UIRHDewVxf9780813955124.webp?v=1779882619","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/becoming-stendhal-the-performance-of-authenticity-and-the-making-of-a-novelist-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}