Author
Stendhal
French writer (1783–1842)
Their life
Born Marie-Henri Beyle on 23 January 1783, the French writer became known by the pen name Stendhal. He died on 23 March 1842.
His two best-known novels are *The Red and the Black* (1830) and *The Charterhouse of Parma* (1839). Critics value them for their close study of how characters think and feel, and Stendhal is counted among the early leading writers of literary realism. He called himself an egotist, and he gave the name "Beylism" to the same trait in his characters.
Stendhal also wrote *De l'amour*, a study of passionate love that introduced the idea of "crystallization." The book sold poorly and drew little notice when it appeared. Later readers came to see it as one of the first modern efforts to understand love, and Sharon Brehm, a former president of the American Psychological Association, described him as a skilled psychologist before that field had its current name.
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