红与黑(诺顿世界文学评论系列)/Red and Black

The text of Stendhal’s classic novel Le Rouge et le Noir in this volume is an entirely new translation which renders the novelist’s strict, hard style into contemporary colloquial English.
　　For the first time in an English translation, notes are given that explain the book’s local allusions and concealed autobiographical reminiscences.
　　Students interested in the backgrounds of the novel may read the newspaper account, for the first time in English, of the murder trial upon which some of the novel’s events are founded.
　　Other materials, on Stendhal’s style and on French life in the 1830s, are also provided.
　　A number of contemporaries are here translated for the first time: Henri Martineau, Jean Prévost, Georges Poulet, Jean-Pierre Richard, G. Tomasi di Lampedusa, Alain, Paul Valéry, Paul Bourget, and Hippolyte Taine.
　　Other critics are Erich Auerbach, René Girard, F. W. J. Hemmings, Jean-Paul Sartre, André Gide, Marcel Proust, Friedrich Nietzsche, José Ortega y Gasset, and Robert M. Adams.

Robert M. Adams was Professor of English Emeritus, University of California at Los Angeles. He was the author of many books, including Ikon: John Milton and the Modern Critics, Strains of Discord, Surface and Symbol, The Land and Literature of England, an