/lit/ - Literature

>>8830423
Did Stendhal really get that much sex, by that age, with that caliber of pussy?
Self-insert? Like all authors, you take a little bit of yourself and other parts from elsewhere. I have dozens of characters that I share slight aspects with but they're all very unlike me.
Novels are all fantasy. And this romantic tragedy left its MC dead for a reason.

>>7166514
Not really. He captures goddesses, and demigodesses

>>6949375

>Stendhal

>Le Rouge et le Noir

>Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)

>my couch

>Evening

>it really depends... 8-9 hours

>Student

>Still studying

>Physical

>>6591844
Only someone from Reddit would know this

Has this ever happened to you, /lit/?

>The illness is named after the famous 19th-century French author Stendhal (pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle), who described his experience with the phenomenon during his 1817 visit to Florence in his book Naples and Florence: A Journey from Milan to Reggio.

>"I was in a sort of ecstasy, from the idea of being in Florence, close to the great men whose tombs I had seen. Absorbed in the contemplation of sublime beauty... I reached the point where one encounters celestial sensations... Everything spoke so vividly to my soul. Ah, if I could only forget. I had palpitations of the heart, what in Berlin they call 'nerves.' Life was drained from me. I walked with the fear of falling"

>>6172220
I am the genuine article