The story of the novel "Red and Black" is reportedly taken from a death penalty case published in1Court Newspaper on February 29th, 828. In the Napoleonic era, red and black represented "the army" and "the church" respectively, which were two channels for the development of ambitious French youth (red and black on roulette).

When Stendhal wrote Red and Black, the French bourgeois revolution led by Napoleon had failed, and he wanted to finish Napoleon's unfinished business with his own pen. He wants to reproduce Napoleon's greatness through red and black, and attack the darkness of the Restoration Dynasty.

Therefore, the author uses "red and black" to symbolize the creative background of the work: "red" symbolizes the blood and revolution during the French Revolution; And "black" means monk's robe, which symbolizes the feudal restoration dynasty with rampant church power.

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The influence of the work:

Red and Black is the foundation work of French critical realism literature, an outstanding political novel in19th century, a classic of the father of modern novels, the first critical realism masterpiece in the history of European literature in19th century, a required reading list listed by American writer Hemingway, a literary book regarded as a real masterpiece by British novelist Mao Mu, and a French book in1986th century.

Red and Black is the representative work of French realist writer Stendhal. Since the publication of 1830, Red and Black has won the hearts of generations of readers all over the world, especially the love of young people. The "young careerist" portrayed in his works is a highly typical figure and has become synonymous with individual careerist.

Through the description of Lian's dual personality, contradictory personality and tragic fate, the novel objectively reveals the cruel reality of the restoration period and its corrosion and destruction to the younger generation.

The subtitle of the novel is "The Age of 1830". In fact, readers can deeply understand "1the oppressive social atmosphere brought by successive governments to the French people in the first 30 years of the 9th century" and the reality.

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