Parma Monastery - Red Cat Classics

Parma Monastery - Red Cat Classics Book Description Parma Monastery is a novel that works according to its own exciting logic, where one narrative technique determines the limits of the other, where one theme affects the other. The book, which Stendhal wrote and finished in a short period of seven weeks and which Balzac described as "the greatest French novel" after stating that he read it several times in a row, tells the story of Fabrice, the young member of the aristocratic del Dongo family. Idealist Fabrice, who impresses the women around him with his handsomeness, participates in the Battle of Waterloo with great excitement, but has to return to Italy after the defeat... Life will make him the hero of an extraordinary journey from the battlefield to the prison, from the monastery to the palace. “… Fabrice was stiff as he had been tied to Sediola for so long a journey; Four gendarmes were picking him up and taking him to the office where the arrest warrant was written. "So I have this famous Fabrice del Dongo in my possession," said the haughty manager, "as if the polite world of Parma had sworn to take care of him alone for nearly a year." (From the Promotional Bulletin)