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Kaban ng Hiyas
Congressional Library

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Kaban ng Hiyas
Congressional Library

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Literary Works

Love

Author

Stendhal

Call Number

PL 253048 WV 8893 2014

Accession Number

83859pl

PUBLICATION YEAR

2007

Keywords

Love, Unrequited, Psychology, Emotion, Philosophy

Book Summary

In 1818, when he was in his mid-thirties, Stendhal met and fell passionately in love with the beautiful Mathilde Dembowski. She, however, was quick to make it clear that she did not return his affections, and in his despair he turned to the written word to exorcise his love and explain his feelings. The result is an intensely personal dissection of the process of falling - and being - in love: a unique blend of poetry, anecdote, philosophy, psychology and social observation. Bringing together the conflicting sides of his nature, the deeply emotional and the coolly analytical, Stendhal created a work that is both acutely personal and universally applicable.

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