Red and Black (Stendhal's Masterpiece)

🤧It's very beautiful... Madam and Julien are really at a loss for words. Every (main) character is three-dimensional and multi-faceted... I almost shed tears in the last few chapters. Julien's true love is always Madam... Her soul is too pure. Only such a soul can love Julien and fall in love with Julien. Only Madam can make Julien let go of his guard and abandon his ambition. Some of the author's random thoughts in the middle are also very interesting. [At this point, the author wanted to add a page of ellipsis, but the editor said: "It is unsightly, and the work is already shallow. If it is unsightly, it will be completely ruined."], And the part where the Russian prince teaches Julien to pursue Mathilde... I gave him more than fifty love letters and asked him to copy them! ! It's so funny. Why do you French authors suddenly become naughty? Hahaha, Hugo is the same. I remember that when the poet was undergoing the test of life (and death) in the beggar gang, he helplessly said "Thank you very much!" To the beggar king. All in all, it is a book worth reading and I hope more people can appreciate it. The musical adaptation is also great!🥰

This book runs through class, church, status, money, and reputation. Julien is the son of an ordinary carpenter and has two older brothers. But his family treated him badly. His father scolded him and even beat him because he often read. Later, the mayor wanted to hire a tutor to improve his sense of honor, but it was more out of vanity. Unexpectedly, Julien fell in love with the mayor's beautiful wife, and the mayor's wife also liked to talk to her husband about money, status and other content, which was unusual for Julien. The lady's child is sick. The lady blames herself deeply because she did something immoral. Later, Madam felt that all this was nothing for a while and continued to be with Julien. The affair between his wife and Julien was exposed, and Julien had no choice but to go to Besancon and enter the seminary to start a new life. The knowledgeable Julien was discovered and hired as a secretary by a wealthy man. There is an atmosphere of ridicule in the homes of rich people. Mathilde is a proud and beautiful lady. She feels that she is beginning to fall in love with Julien, and Julien is beginning to fall in love with her. The lady has scruples because of her reputation, status, and identity, and begins to feel that she does not love Julien, so she abandons the relationship. Julien and the lady are similar. They regard love as a victory, a sense of accomplishment. There is love but more to satisfy their own vanity. Julien went elsewhere, thinking about Miss Mathilde all the time. On the way back, someone gave Julien advice and told him what he should do to gain the lady's heart. Julien did so, and it really worked. Julien and the lady are together again, and the lady is pregnant. The young lady's father was very angry😡, but he still compromised a little, gave the property and gave Julien the status of lieutenant. The young lady's father received a letter from Mademoiselle de Rênal (the mayor's wife), which slandered Julien. With his love for the lady, Julien bought two robs and wanted to kill Mademoiselle de Rênal (the mayor's wife), but failed. Julien cried bitterly but also felt remorse. Fortunately, he did not kill her. Julien went to jail. He fell in love with Mademoiselle de Rênal (the mayor's wife) again and spent the whole day in prison. Fortunately, with the help of the two ladies and his friend Fouquet, he was able to feel better in prison. When his father came to visit Julien, he cursed him loudly. When Julien mentioned that he was rich and said that he had a share of your money, his father was very happy and did not care about Julien's life or death. In the end, after many struggles, Julien died. Miss Dreher passed away three days after Julien's death.

The author Stendhal described his psychology in a particularly delicate way, which made me feel like I was beside him. Moreover, the confrontation between individuals and society in the book is also very profound and made me think a lot. I think this book is really worth reading!

In fact, "Red and Black" is not as simple as it seems. It should have appeared on the recommended reading list of primary schools. A long time passed across the sky, and I spent the rest of my life repenting in the desolate crowds. At this moment, I reunited with myself fifteen years ago.

It feels like Julien has some mental problems

This book was read one after another. When he was young, he was always ambitious and arrogant. His inferiority and pride ruined many things, including love, future, and society. Julien was both lucky and unfortunate. So what now? It seems like this is the time to be alone, right?

Julien was both hateful and pitiable. Perhaps as he concluded before his death, he had only followed the trend of society in his young life after pursuing fame and fortune for more than ten years. He once devoted himself to a fiery love, embraced his red and pulsating heart, held on to his robe tightly, and followed cold gray steps in the dark night to pursue - self-esteem, love, status, or something else. He failed everyone. He failed to keep the temperature in his blood, but he couldn't help it. He could even be called cute Yulian. The story of red and black makes people sigh with regret. Stendhal takes us to know a little man who spurned the nobility and longed to join the upper class society in a French society where passion was extinguished and darkness was in power. He carried with him a tragedy that was already doomed. It has a profound meaning and is undoubtedly touching.

Wonderful. French romance. The tragedy of the young people at the bottom trying to climb up, and the absurdity of the upper class nobles pursuing romance. Whoop!

A very beautiful book, one of my favorite novels together with Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice! The love story between the male protagonist and the two female protagonists is very interesting and touching. Children should not miss it [laughing][laughing]

The translation is very good, and the writing reads smoothly and naturally, without any far-fetched ornate rhetoric, which is very good.

Classics are beautiful.

It can be regarded as a reference for life.

The translation is a little more straightforward, and some parts don't quite sound like Chinese.