Notes and Misconceptions
The Waterloo episode is a great anti-heroic battle scene: confusion, partial vision, noise, and the inability to understand history from inside it.
Stendhal is less solemn than his reputation. The book has speed, irony, vanity, and comedy running through its politics.
Best Path
European realism, politics, post-Napoleonic fiction
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