Красное и чёрное: Хроника XIX века

1830 novel by Stendhal

Le Rouge et le Noir (lə ʁuʒ e l(ə) nwaʁ; meaning The Red and the Black) is a historical psychological novel in two volumes by Stendhal, published in 1830. It chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception, and hypocrisy. He ultimately allows his passions to betray him. The novel's full title, Le Rouge et le Noir: Chronique du XIXe siècle (The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the 19th Century), indicates its twofold literary purpose as both a psychological portrait of the romantic protagonist, Julien Sorel, and an analytic, sociological satire of the French social order under the Bourbon Restoration (1814–1830). In English, Le Rouge et le Noir variously is translated as Red and Black, Scarlet and Black, and The Red and the Black, without the subtitle. The title is taken to refer to the tension between the clerical (black) and secular (red) interests of the protagonist but it could also refer to the then popular card game "rouge et noir", with the card game being the narratological leitmotiv of a novel in which chance and luck determine the fate of the main character. There are other interpretations as well.

Le Rouge et le Noir is the Bildungsroman of Julien Sorel, the intelligent and ambitious protagonist. He comes from a poor family

In two volumes, The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the 19th Century tells the story of Julien Sorel's life in France's rigid social structure restored after the disruptions of the French Revolution and the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Julien Sorel, the ambitious son of a carpenter in the fictional village of Verrières, in Franche Comté, France, would rather read and daydream about the glorious victories of Napoleon's long disbanded army than work in his father's timber business with his brothers, who beat him for his intellectual pretensions. A passage describing Julien Sorel's sexual indifference is deployed as the epigraph to Paul Schrader's screenplay of American Gigolo, whose protagonist is named Julien: "The idea of a duty to be performed, and the fear of making himself ridiculous if he failed to perform it, immediately removed all pleasure from his heart." Former U. S. Vice President Al Gore named The Red and the Black as his favorite book.

Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe siècle (1830) first was translated into English ca. 1900; the best known translation, The Red and the Black (1926) by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, has been, like his other translations, characterised as one of his "fine, spirited renderings, not entirely accurate on minor points of meaning Scott Moncrieff's versions have not really been superseded." The version by Robert M. Adams for the Norton Critical Editions series is highly regarded; it "is more colloquial; his edition includes an informative section on backgrounds and sources, and excerpts from critical studies." Other translators include Margaret R. B. Shaw (as Scarlet and Black for Penguin Classics, 1953), Lowell Blair (Bantam Books, 1959), Lloyd C. Parks (New York, 1970), Catherine Slater (Oxford World's Classics, 1991), and Roger Gard (Penguin Classics, 2002). The 2006 translation by Burton Raffel for the Modern Library edition generally earned positive reviews, and Salon. com stated "[Burton Raffel's] exciting new translation of The Red and the Black blasts Stendhal into the twenty first century." Michael Johnson for The New York Times wrote "Now The Red and the Black is getting a new lease on life with an updated English language version by the renowned translator Burton Raffel. His version has all but replaced the decorous text produced in the 1920s by the Scottish born writer translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff".

Following the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, General Joaquim Justino Alves Bastos, commander of the Third Army, ordered, in Rio Grande do Sul, the burning of all "subversive books." Among the books he branded as subversive was The Red and the Black.

Der geheime Kurier (The Secret Courier) is a silent 1928 German film by Gennaro Righelli, featuring Ivan Mosjoukine, Lil Dagover, and Valeria Blanka. Il Corriere del re (The Courier of the King) is a 1947 Italian film adaptation of the story directed by Gennaro Righelli. It features Rossano Brazzi, Valentina Cortese, and Irasema Dilián. Another film adaptation of the novel was released in 1954, directed by Claude Autant Lara. It stars Gérard Philipe, Antonella Lualdi, and Danielle Darrieux. It won the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics award for the best film of the year. Le Rouge et le Noir (téléfilm, 1961) is a 1961 French TV film directed by Pierre Cardinal, with Robert Etcheverry, Micheline Presle, Marie Laforêt, and Jean Roger Caussimon. A BBC TV miniseries in five episodes, The Scarlet and the Black, was made in 1965, starring John Stride, June Tobin, and Karin Fernald. It is unknown if the serial still exists as it has not been seen or documented in decades. Красное и чёрное (Krasnoe i čërnoe) (Red and Black) is a 1976 Soviet film version, directed by Sergei Gerasimov, with Nikolai Yeryomenko Ml, Natalya Bondarchuk, and Natalya Belokhvostikova. Another BBC TV miniseries titled Scarlet and Black was broadcast in 1993, starring Ewan McGregor, Rachel Weisz, and Stratford Johns as the Abbé Pirard. A notable addition to the plot was the spirit of Napoleon (Christopher Fulford), who advises Sorel (McGregor) through his rise and fall. A TV film of the novel titled Le Rouge et le Noir (téléfilm, 1997) was broadcast in 1997 by Koch Lorber Films, starring Kim Rossi Stuart, Carole Bouquet, and Judith Godrèche; it was directed by fr. This version is available on DVD.