#La Chartreuse de Parme

[keepthisholykiss]

so i started reading the charterhouse of parma...

[kansassire]

La Chartreuse de Parme, 1948, Christian Jaque  

[falsenote]

The Charterhouse of Parma (1982)

[jaimelire-france]

La Chartreuse de Parme est un roman écrit par Stendhal. Cette œuvre majeure lui valut la célébrité.

[lameravigliadoro]

I'm a English native and I'm learning French I can have a short conversation in French but I'm really slow and takes time to understand some words. I used to be in French classes in highschool (I'm going to be a senior in highschool when it starts up) what would you recommend for me to use to help learn more? I'm currently using droplets and Duolingo for studying (Droplets for vocabulary and Duolingo for grammar, reading things like that) what would you recommend for me to use thats free or doesn't cost that much? It would help a lot thank you

Hi!

Duolingo and Droplets are good resources for starters.

there are several things you can do if you want to go further.

Check out RFI (Radio France International) : You'll find free listening and reading resources abt French speaking news. I highly recommend you listen and then read the podcast episodes of LES MOTS D'ACTUALITÉ (words that are the news - they will explain the origin and meanings of 1 word that is relevant these days in France). but be curious and check out the rest, they have lots of good stuff.

Read news articles for free on official news website France Info, RTBF (Belgium). you'll find some free articles on Le Monde, Libération, Le Parisien, etc.

find lessons and exercises on Francaisfacile.com to get a better understanding of grammar, conjugations, tenses, etc.

Read 19th Guy de Maupassanant's (King of French fantastique genre) short stories on Wikisource. Highly recommend "La Main" ("The Hand", kinda horror, but really famous)

-> when you're more confident abt reading novels in French, just search for any 19th writer + Wikisource and you should be able to find their works in full for free. My favs are Zola, Balzac, Victor Hugo (Les Misérables' writer !), Flaubert, Dumas (Les Trois Mousquetaires' writer !), George Sand, Stendhal (esp La Chartreuse de Parme) etc.

if you have doubts about how to say something like a native, ask someone on HiNative you'll always have some French speaking ppl to help you.

- Familiarise yourself with spoken French with youtube/podcasts/etc (anything that's material for listening skills). If you're on youtube you can check channels like

Vogue France and their street style, with subtitles and lots of fashion and slang vocab! I used it in my French lesson and it worked quite well.

Yes Vous Aime was a comedy skits channel, with French subtitles. They did parodies, you can check it out!

Paul Taylor is a British stand up comedian. He's doing skits and specials in both French and English, and he's honestly perfect at grasping and vulgarising French oddities either in the language or the french society.

Clément Viktorovitch and his weekly analysis on French politics/news on Franceinfo. As you may already know, we're very passionate about our political life in France. so you can get used to the vocab have a gist of it with these chroniques radio.

Karambolage - it's a bilingual channel (German & French - l'amitié franco-allemande is a big thing! 🙂) that explains social, cultural differences between the two countries. You can find illustrated explanations of Le Verlan, expressions like "Monter à Paris" etc etc. It worked so well with my students! they found it easier to understand.

Damon Dominique is a language American youtuber and he's good at explaining and vulgarising French grammar and slang. Sometimes you gotta look at a foreign point of view :)

Konbini (especially their Club Lecture, Vidéo Club where famous authors/film directors show their favourite works, their inspirations and talk abt it, you probably won't find any subtitles tho)

and ofc you have dozen of french youtubers like Squeezie, Seb, Lena Situation, Aurélien Prévaux, Zen (talkshow) etc.

And when you're more confident, you can pick a day when you'll try to think only in French, another day when you'll translate what's written on your food package/friends convos/emails etc etc

put your phone settings in french, follow vocab accounts on Instagram, follow French ppl on social media so that you get accustomed to read in French on a daily basis.

and find a book to read in french, or fanfics if you're into it, anything that'll make you read in French :)

I hope that answers your questions! and sorry if it looks like too much, I'm getting back at a language I used to learn in high school too, it's not easy and it takes time. so take your time with French, I just put everything I thought might help in the first months/first year!

good luck! bonne chance !

[breathofthebloodlily]

14, 16, 21

14: Favorite humor and satire book(s).

I don't think anything will really dethrone Discworld. There's just so many layers.

16: Favorite trilogy.

UUUUH I don't think that many of my fave series are trilogies lmao. Webb/Griffin/North mostly wrote two-book wonders, then longer series, then unconnected books. Old Kingdom was a trilogy until it wasn't. Tamora Pierce writes in quartets. Lord Of The Rings isn't even technically a trilogy.

I'm gonna say that until Alecto actually comes out (IT'S BEEN 83 YEARS), Locked Tomb is my favourite trilogy.

21: The book(s) on your school reading list you actually enjoyed.

Everything by Shakespeare. Seamus Heaney poetry. To Kill A Mockingbird. Les Fleurs Du Mal. La Chartreuse De Parme, thanks to our french teacher that year who actually made us pay attention to what precisely was being described so we'd realise how absolutely WILD everything was and started treating it as the ridiculously overdramatic epic it was. Pride And Prejudice..... when I reread it years later XD

(Statistically... mostly the answer is Shakespeare lol)

[les-epees]

« J’ai mis longtemps à comprendre pourquoi j’avais toujours tant aimé Lucien Leuwen, Julien Sorel et Fabrice Del Dongo. Pourquoi, parmi tous les romans de Faulkner, j’avais élu L’Invaincu, au point d’y revenir au moins une fois l’an. Et pourquoi j’avais lu et relu avec le même enthousiasme Les récits de la demi-brigade de Giono. Oui, pourquoi ces lectures si différentes éveillaient-elles la même jubilation euphorique ? Qu’avaient donc en commun leurs héros ? La révélation me fut apportée un jour que je lisais un peu plus attentivement et sans doute avec l’œil de l’historien les premières pages de La Chartreuse de Parme, l’entrée de Bonaparte à Milan.On ne pouvait s’y tromper. Derrière ce roman d’amour, de cape et d’épée, Stendhal avait laissé parler un cœur très engagé. A leur façon et au nom de causes très différentes, chacun des personnages des romans que je viens d’évoquer montre autant d’attrait pour les causes perdues que de mépris pour des vainqueurs installés et satisfaits. »

Dominique Venner, Stendhal rebelle et fidèle.1, publié le 26 février 2013

[aurevoirmonty]

« Le lac de Côme, se disait-elle, n'est point environné, comme le lac de Genève, de grandes pièces de terre bien closes et cultivées selon les meilleures méthodes, choses qui rappellent l'argent et la spéculation. Ici, de tous côtés je vois des collines d'inégales hauteurs, couvertes de bouquets d'arbres plantés par le hasard, et que la main de l'homme n'a point encore gâtés et forcés à rendre du revenu. Au milieu de ces collines aux formes admirables et se précipitant vers le lac par des pentes si singulières, je puis garder toutes les illusions des descriptions du Tasse et de l'Arioste. Tout est noble et tendre, tout parle d’amour, rien ne rappelle les laideurs de la civilisation. »

Stendhal, La Chartreuse de Parme, 1839

[bretongirlwrites]

19 and 20 for the writer ask game : )

19. What are some things that inspired your stories? Real events? Maybe a dream?

have more or less explicitly based several of my stories on classic french literature i've enjoyed... lunette's story takes a lot from le rouge et le noir, a 19th-century book about a hypocritical social climber who makes the 'mistake' of really falling in love. an empire fallen also borrowed scenes from stendhal, and fabrice was based on the character of the same name from la chartreuse de parme. now i mention it, an empire fallen was also based partly on a dream i had...

i can't say i base stories on real life events however. i read almost exclusively pre-'realism' and sometimes fear i'm too much trapped in cliché for it. but at the same time, i'm all about ideas and hardly anything about like. actual physical settings or making stuff 'realistic'

20. What story are you the proudest of? Why?

oh i don't know... i almost always go back to stories and think 'how did i ever think this was good. how did anyone think this was good'. a few have held up however... i've always been fond of the imperial city irregulars and the formation of a courier for being pretty consistently comical/satirical. it's a hard style to maintain

[aromantic-enjolras]

Next time you feel horrified about Marius stalking a sixteen year old girl and sniffing “her” handkerchief, remember that in “La Chartreuse de Parme” by Stendhal we have

a 45 year old madly in love with a 30-something year old who is infatuated with her 16 year old nephew who is very interested in a 12 year old “who looks fourteen”.

(.... I’m still not sure if it’s parody, because it’s Stendhal and he always feels tongue in cheek, but still. Yikes.)

[kansassire]

La Chartreuse de Parme, 1948, Christian Jaque

[falsenote]

The Charterhouse of Parma (1982)

[tolgaulusoy]

Parma Manastırı (Fr. La Chartreuse de Parme), Stendhal'ın klasik romanı. İtalya'da yaşanan gerçek bir olaya dayanan bu romanı okumak ciddi anlamda sabır işi. Fabrice del Dongo soylu bir aileden gelen birisidir oldukça ateşli bir ruhu vardır ki bu ruh onu daha gençliğinin ortasında Napoléon Bonaparte'ın ordusunda savaşmaya gitmiştir. Ama olaylar onu öyle bir yere getirir ki bir cinayet işlemek zorunda kalır ve kaçtığı yerden entrikalar sonucunda yakalanır. Onun cinayet davası aslında Parma prensliğinde muhafazakarlar, liberaller ve cumhuriyetçiler arasındaki siyasi rekabetin bir arenası haline gelir. Fabrice ayrıca hapis yattığı sürede Parma kalesinin komutanının kızına da aşık olur ve ikili arasında umutsuz bir ilişki başlar. Dediğim gibi okuması oldukça yorucu bir eser ama bir klasik olduğu için hayatın bir zamanında okunması gerekiyordu.

[ronnydeschepper]

"Winesburg, Ohio" van Sherwood Anderson

Nadat ik “La Chartreuse de Parme” helaas heb moeten opgeven (*), is mij nu “Winesburg, Ohio” te beurt gevallen, het boekje waarmee de Amerikaanse auteur Sherwood Anderson is doorgebroken (foto: Sherwood Anderson op 29 november 1933, door Carl van Vechten, bestand is beschikbaar in de Prints and Photographs division van de Library of Congress). Continue reading Untitled