Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Essay 'Knowledge as Dust-cloud in Stendhal' (De l'Amour; candidate dictAuthor was wrong)”
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose: “regarded as a bore, what are the chances that a group of gentlemen will gather before a fire to exchange the detailed histories of their love affairs, as they do in Stendhal's On Love.”