The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño: “Librería El Mundo, on Río Nazas: selected poems by Byron, Shelley, and Keats; Stendhal's The Red and the Black (which I've already read); and Lichtenberg's Aphorisms, translated by Alfonso Reyes.”
Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Stendhal & Charterhouse essays: named directly”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “Julien Sorel, in The Red and the Black, pursues his suicidal and more or less heroic erotic career as a Napoleonic clone”
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose: “Like many of Balzac's provincial novels, Stendhal's The Red and the Black begins by introducing the reader to the topography of the town.”