Nun of Castro

...After a long period of misfortune, he became consul in the political upheaval following the July Revolution of 1830, and his masterpiece, The Red and the Black, was published in the same year. After that, he was stationed as consul in Civitavecchia near Rome, and while taking leave, he continued to stay in Paris for long periods of time. During that time, he wrote the novels Lucien Ruben and Lamiel, his autobiography Reminiscences of Egotism and The Life of Henri Brullard (all unfinished and published posthumously), and also published several volumes of the Italian Chronicles, including The Nun of Castro (1839), and Notes of a Traveler (1838). However, his masterpiece, The Abbey of Parma, which he completed by dictation in Paris in 1838, was his last. He died in the street in 1842 while staying in Paris.

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…長い不遇の後，1830年七月革命後の政変で領事職を得たが，この年発表した《赤と黒》が彼の代表作となる。以後ローマ近郊のチビタベッキアに領事として駐在する一方，休暇を得て何回かパリに長期滞在する生活が続き，その間に長編小説《リュシアン･ルーベン》《ラミエル》，自伝《エゴティスムの回想》《アンリ･ブリュラールの生涯》(いずれも未完，死後発表)を執筆，また《カストロの尼》(1839)をはじめとする《イタリア年代記》の諸編，《旅行者の手記》(1838)などを発表したが，38年パリで口述筆記により完成した長編《パルムの僧院》こそ生涯の傑作であろう。死は，42年パリ滞在中に，街頭で脳卒中のかたちで彼を襲った。…

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