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A review by jess_mango
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
4.0
3.5 stars
I'm just not 100% into Julien, the handsome. ambitious young Frenchman trying to advance himself in society.
Julien Sorel is the son of a carpenter and has gotten himself an education and is pretty well-read. Napoleon is his idol and Julien yearns to advance higher in society. He gives the military an attempt (the red) and the clergy (the black). He ends up being hired as a tutor by a wealthy family where he decides to lure the wife into an affair...and so begins his conniving ways to move up in the world.
I just didn't like Julien. at.all. It made it hard for me to like this book more. I can appreciate the writing and it helped me learn more about French society in the 1800s.
I'm just not 100% into Julien, the handsome. ambitious young Frenchman trying to advance himself in society.
Julien Sorel is the son of a carpenter and has gotten himself an education and is pretty well-read. Napoleon is his idol and Julien yearns to advance higher in society. He gives the military an attempt (the red) and the clergy (the black). He ends up being hired as a tutor by a wealthy family where he decides to lure the wife into an affair...and so begins his conniving ways to move up in the world.
I just didn't like Julien. at.all. It made it hard for me to like this book more. I can appreciate the writing and it helped me learn more about French society in the 1800s.