파르므의 수도원 1권

MARIE-HENRI BEYLE

[DE STENDHAL]

THE CHARTERHOUSE OF PARMA

_Translated from the French by_

C. K. SCOTT MONCRIEFF

VOLUME ONE

BONI & LIVERIGHT

NEW YORK MCMXXV

CONTENTS A STUDY OF M. BEYLE by Honoré De Balzac BEYLE'S REPLY TO BALZAC _TO THE READER_ CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER THIRTEEN

TRANSLATOR'S DEDICATION

TO MADAME C---- R----

In whom alone survives the spirit of the Sanseverina, to resist tyranny, to unmask intrigue, to encourage ambition, this story of her countrywoman is, in the language of her adopted country, dedicated by

C. K. S. M.

Pisa, December, 1924.

A STUDY OF M. BEYLE

By Honoré De Balzac

In our day, literature quite evidently presents three aspects; and, so far from being a symptom of decadence, this triplicity, to use an expression coined by M. Cousin in his dislike of the word trinity, seems to me a natural enough effect of the abundance of literary talent: it is a tribute to the nineteenth century, which does not offer one sole and invariable form, like the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which were more or less obedient to the tyranny of a man or of a system.