The Red and the Black (abridged retelling)

Stendhal is one of those writers who helped create the glory of French literature of the 19th century. The pinnacle of the author’s work is the novel “The Red and the Black.”

An ordinary case from a criminal chronicle, which served as the basis for the novel, became in the hands of a sensitive psychologist and brilliant stylist, Stendhal, a human drama of the highest intensity and, at the same time, a social study of society.

Julien Sorel—a ambitious and capable young man—experienced both romantic love and a passionate, turbulent desire that he could not resist and for which he paid with his life.

Published in a shortened retelling by Ivan Lobanov.