Talk:French literature of the 19th century
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Stendhal is classified as both a romantic and a realist.Why?
Good question requiring a better answer than I'm qualified to give, but put simply, his characters' psychological complexities are described and analysed using "realist" methods, despite the fact that they embody any number of Romantic tropes and often find themselves in unlikely, emotionally-overcharged situations. The cliché (and not an inaccurate one) is that Stendhal's violently emotional nature made him a natural Romantic, while his obsessive proclivity toward lucid analysis made him a formidable Realist in his own right, in addition to being a tremendous influence on (among athers) no less a figure than the supreme realist (himself showing Romantic tendencies and constantly battling against them), Gustave Flaubert. Hubacelgrand 16:33, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
