Souvenirs d'égotisme autobiographie et lettres inédites publiées par Casimir Stryienski

This volume brings together Stendhal’s later autobiographical notes and a cache of previously unpublished correspondence, filling the gaps between his early memoirs and his celebrated novels. The texts, drawn from the original manuscript in Grenoble, reveal a decade of the writer’s life—1821 to 1830—when he navigated the bustling salons of Restoration France, negotiated personal ambitions, and refined the keen observations that would later define his fiction. Readers hear the same paradoxical wit and self‑reflective humor that pulse through his published works, now placed in the raw context of his own recollections.

Beyond the factual chronicle, the letters expose Stendhal’s delicate balance between satire and sentiment, offering glimpses of his fleeting loves, his critical eye on social conventions, and the literary debates that animated his circles. Listeners will sense the tonal shifts from playful irony to quiet melancholy, a soundtrack to the restless curiosity that drove his novels. This collection invites a deeper, more intimate conversation with the mind behind The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma.