tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post5015339374635786152..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Stendahl at Waterloo - Ah, now we're being attacked!Amateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-19154848919211988802012-10-06T15:57:58.950-05:002012-10-06T15:57:58.950-05:00Fabrizio at Waterloo as metaphor for the reader an...Fabrizio at Waterloo as metaphor for the reader and Stendhal's novels - that's quite good.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-68699178719803367952012-10-06T07:02:09.361-05:002012-10-06T07:02:09.361-05:00My word, I don't think I've ever used that...My word, I don't think I've ever used that "handle" don't even know where it came from. sorry for the confusion, the above comment was mine. - so very very sorry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-79022603407687750842012-10-06T06:59:16.034-05:002012-10-06T06:59:16.034-05:00He is strange, hard to pin down exactly...The Wate...He is strange, hard to pin down exactly...The Waterloo scenes are wonderful. As Fabrizio wanders about earnestly trying to get to the center of the battle, he is taking in the fractured mass of detail and Stendhal is practically succeeding in doing what, for a writer, is really impossible, which is to give it all to us at once. Fabrizio lacks all frames of reference and can only keep the search for the center up; he never really realizes that- there is no center. I sometimes feel the exact same way as a reader of Stendhal's books...other MIV momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13029329486149657554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-47709574002177919992007-12-10T20:28:00.000-06:002007-12-10T20:28:00.000-06:00I've only read him at all in the past year or so. ...I've only read him at all in the past year or so. He is so strange, so very strange.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-20185549119392794512007-12-10T00:11:00.000-06:002007-12-10T00:11:00.000-06:00It's been so long since I read Stendhal. This make...It's been so long since I read Stendhal. This makes me want to dive in again soon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com