A young Italian nobleman pursues love and intrigue through the petty courts of post-Napoleonic Italy. Stendhal's sparkling novel of romance and politics.
Books mentioned in The Charterhouse of Parma (2)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “In all ages, the base Sancho Panza triumphs, you will find, in the long run, over the sublime Don Quixote.”
La Locandiera by Carlo Goldoni: “the play was Goldoni's _La Locanderia_. He examined the architecture of the building, scarcely did he turn his eyes to the stage.”
2666 by Roberto Bolaño: “If Stendhal, as it is said, danced when he read Balzac's critique of The Charterhouse of Parma.”
Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Essay 'Guide for New Readers of Stendhal's Charterhouse' (primary subject)”
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway: “Until I read the Chartreuse de Parme by Stendhal I had never read of war as it was except in Tolstoi”
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson: “She went into Whelan's and sat at the counter, putting her copy of the Villager down on the counter next to her pocketbook and The Charterhouse of Parma, which she had read enthusiastically up to page fifty and only carried now for effect.”
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk: “In The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal compares such talk to a gunshot in the middle of a concert”
The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino: “Subject of the essay "Guide to The Charterhouse of Parma for the Use of New Readers"”
The Last Supper by Rachel Cusk: “'it is how I imagine Fabrizio's tower to have been in Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma'”