Lucien Leuwen

LUCIEN LEUWEN A novel by Stendhal circa 1834, but not published until 1894. Its length, scope and quality compare well to his two masterworks The Red and the Black (1830) and The Charterhouse of Parma (1839). Aside from Stendhal’s psychological insights, the 21st-century American may be stimulated and irritated by his sharp observations of a society struggling with democracy, its opponents, and its discontents.