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- Herausgeber: Youcanprint
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017
Although Stendhal considered On Love his best creation, not many critics and readers will ever agree with him. Henry James called the book unreadable; others have called it bizarre; and some disconcerting and exasperating. Here’s a warning by means of a question: what is the 21st century reader to make of this book? In my estimation, with some patience one can find not only an abundance of wit, but also much hidden wisdom about the mysterium tremendum that is human love. If Stendhal’s On Love is considered a failure, then all I can say is that he is in good company, for Aristophanes, Plato, Denis de Rougemont, Ortega y Gasset, Eric Fromm and others also fell short—and no one can say they disgraced themselves. Here’s a gem that never fails to give hope to men who search for love: “A requirement of love is that a man's face, at first sight, should show both something to be respected and something to be pitied.”
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On Love
Stendhal
First digital edition 2016 by Anna Ruggieri
CONTENTS
On Love
Stendhal
BOOK I
CHAPTER I - OF LOVE
CHAPTER IIOF THE BIRTH OF LOVE
CHAPTER IIIOF HOPE
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VITHE CRYSTALS OF SALZBURG
CHAPTER VIIDIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE BIRTH OF LOVE IN THE TWO SEXES
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XIIFURTHER CONSIDERATION OF CRYSTALLISATION
CHAPTER XIIIOF THE FIRST STEP; OF THE FASHIONABLE WORLD; OF MISFORTUNES
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVIIBEAUTY DETHRONED BY LOVE
CHAPTER XVIIILIMITATIONS OF BEAUTY
CHAPTER XIXLIMITATIONS OF BEAUTY—(continued)
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXILOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
CHAPTER XXIIOF INFATUATION
CHAPTER XXIIITHE THUNDERBOLT FROMTHE BLUE(11)
CHAPTER XXIVVOYAGE IN AN UNKNOWN LAND
CHAPTER XXVTHE INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER XXVIOF MODESTY
CHAPTER XXVIITHE GLANCE
CHAPTER XXVIIIOF FEMININE PRIDE
CHAPTER XXIXOF WOMEN'S COURAGE
CHAPTER XXXA PECULIAR AND MOURNFUL SPECTACLE
CHAPTER XXXIEXTRACT FROM THE DIARY OF SALVIATI
CHAPTER XXXIIOF INTIMATE INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER XXXIII
CHAPTER XXXIVOFCONFIDENCES
CHAPTER XXXVOF JEALOUSY
CHAPTER XXXVIOF JEALOUSY—(continued)
CHAPTER XXXVIIROXANA
CHAPTER XXXVIIIOF SELF-ESTEEM PIQUED[1]
CHAPTER XXXIXOF QUARRELSOME LOVE
CHAPTER XXXIX(Part II)REMEDIES AGAINST LOVE
CHAPTER XXXIX(Part III)
BOOK II
CHAPTER XL
CHAPTER XLIOF NATIONS WITH REGARD TO LOVE.FRANCE
CHAPTER XLIIFRANCE (continued)
CHAPTER XLIIIITALY(27)
CHAPTER XLIVROME
CHAPTER XLVENGLAND(31)
CHAPTER XLVIENGLAND—(continued)
CHAPTER XLVIISPAIN(36)
CHAPTER XLVIIIGERMAN LOVE(37)
CHAPTER XLIXA DAY IN FLORENCE
CHAPTER LLOVE IN THE UNITEDSTATES(41)
CHAPTER LILOVE IN PROVENCE UP TO THE CONQUEST OF TOULOUSE, IN 1328, BY THE BARBARIANS FROM THE NORTH
CHAPTER LII(39)PROVENCE IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY
CHAPTER LIIIARABIA
CHAPTER LIV(43)OF THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN
CHAPTERLV(43)OBJECTIONS TO THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN
CHAPTER LVI(43)OBJECTIONS TO THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN(continued)
CHAPTER LVI(Part II)ON MARRIAGE
CHAPTER LVIIOF VIRTUE, SO CALLED
CHAPTER LVIIISTATE OF EUROPE WITH REGARD TO MARRIAGE
CHAPTER LIXWERTHER AND DON JUAN
BOOK III
SCATTERED FRAGMENTS
BOOK I
CHAPTER I - OF LOVE
My aim is to comprehend that passion, of which every sincere development has a character of beauty.
There are four kinds of love.
1.Passion-love—that of the Portuguese nun(1), of Héloïse for Abelard, of Captain de Vésel, of Sergeant de Cento.
2. Gallant love—that which ruled in Paris towards 1760, to be found in the memoirs and novels of the period, in Crébillon, Lauzun, Duclos, Marmontel, Chamfort, Mme. d'Épinay, etc. etc.
'Tis a picture in which everything, to the very shadows, should be rose-colour, in which may enter nothing disagreeable under any pretext whatsoever, at the cost of a lapse of etiquette, of good taste, ofrefinement, etc. A man of breeding foresees all the ways of acting, that he is likely to adopt or meet with in the different phases of this love. True love is often less refined; for that in which there is no passion and nothing unforeseen, has always a store of ready wit: the latter is a cold and pretty miniature, the former a picture by the Carracci. Passion-love carries us away in defiance of all our interests, gallant love manages always to respect them. True, if we take from this poor love its vanity,there is very little left: once stripped, it is like a tottering convalescent, scarcely able to drag himself along.
3. Physical love. Out hunting—a fresh, pretty country girl crosses your path and escapes into the wood. Everyone knows the love founded on this kind of pleasure: and all begin that way at sixteen, however parched and unhappy the character.
4. Vanity-love. The vast majority of men, especially in France, desire and have a fashionable woman, in the same way as a man gets a fine horse, as something which the luxury of a young man demands. Their vanity more or less flattered, more or less piqued, gives birth to transports of feelings. Sometimes there is also physical love, but by no means always: often there is not so much as physical pleasure. A duchess is never more than thirty for a bourgeois, said the Duchesse de Chaulnes, and those admitted to the Court of that just man,king Lewis of Holland, recall with amusement a pretty woman from the Hague, who could not help finding any man charming who was Duke or Prince. But true to the principle of monarchy, as soon as a Prince arrived at Court, the Duke was dismissed: she was, as it were, the decoration of the diplomatic body.
The happiest case of this uninspiring relationship is that in which to physical pleasure is added habit. In that case store of memories makes it resemble love a little; there is the pique of self-esteem and sadness on being left; then, romance forces upon us its ideas and we believe that we are in love and melancholy, for vanity aspires to credit itself with a great passion. This, at least, is certain that, whatever kind of love be the source of pleasure, as soon as the soul is stirred, the pleasure is keen and its memory alluring, and in this passion, contrary to most of the others, the memory of our losses seems always to exceed the bounds of what we can hope for in the future.
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
