Nate D's Reviews > The Abbess of Castro

Mid-19th-century romance/adventure/tragedy supposedly translated and summarized from old Italian manuscripts, which allows Stendhal some room as an intrusive narrator for commentary on the prevailing attitudes of the 16th century compared to 19th. Mostly pretty fun, and with an unforced sense of impending disaster as just inevitable rather than due to authorial machinations (and if blame is to be allocated, it seems mostly to go to family, rather than the characters themselves). Not really reaching, either, but then its minor Stendhal, even if the only of his that I've read.