On Love: Translated From the French; With an Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from On Love: Translated From the French; With an Introduction and Notes<br><br>Stendhal was beset with a horror of being artistic. Was it not he who said of an artist whose dress was particularly elaborate: Depend upon it a man who adorns his person will also adorn his work Stendhal was a soldier first then a writer - Salviati1 is a soldier. Certainly it is his contempt for the type of person - even commoner perhaps in 1914 than in 1814 - who carries his emotions on his sleeve which accounts for Stendhal''s naive disclaimer of personal responsibility the invention of Lisio2 and Salviati mythical authors of this work on love - all a thin screen to hide his own obsession which manages none the less to break through unmasked on almost every page.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.