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Letters of Stendhal
Jones, Ernest | January 17, 1953 issue

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The article critically appraises the book "To the Happy Few. Selected Letters of Stendhal," by Emmanuel Boudot-Lamotte. "To the Happy Few" is a selection of 225 letters and parts of letters from a monumental correspondence. Many of these letters are very good. The best of these letters are those in which he describes the passions which ravaged but never destroyed him, passions, however, on which, as a phrase will indicate or as the annotations attest, he could always shed a very dry light. Too often, however, his correspondence, as represented here, reveals his addiction to generalizations about love or conduct or politics.

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BOOKS & reading; TO the Happy Few (Book); BOUDOT-Lamotte, Emmanuel; LETTERS; LOVE; EMOTIONS
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