Top Ten without Stendahl

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, John Carvill wrote:
> CFA wrote:
> "Given these rankings, shouldn't Stendahl's The Red and The Black be in
> your top ten?
> If not, could you tell us why?"
>
> Simple really - I haven't read it even once, let alone twice.
> Now can you tell me why, 'given these rankings', you expected it to be
> listed?

If you haven't read TRatB, my suggestion is a spoiler. If you
still want to know it, scroll down some 40 lines.


Q: If I love Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary, why should I love
The Red and the Black too?

A: Because they make the Top Three on the list of...

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The Nineteeth Century Continental Novels of Psychological
Realism Where The Protagonist Dies Violently in the End



Heikki

P.S. As to Stendhal, have always gone more for The Charterhouse
of Parma myself.