Stendal

On this day in 1783 in Grenoble was born French writer Henri Mari Bale, the creator of modern realism, misunderstood by his contemporaries because of his ideas and style transcended the era in which he lived. The public is better known under the pseudonym of Stendal. He had a difficult childhood, but with seven years left without a mother to whom he was very attached, a father taking care of children left to their conservative sister. He studied at the polytechnic, is fascinated by mathematics and art, like to travel around Europe, especially in Italy where he was consul, he had a military career. He was saying, “All of us are writing randomly what we think is true, any of us deny that to yourself. All our books watching as lottery tickets; they really do not have a higher value. Progeny will, forgetting one and again by printing another, to announce that receive lottery tickets. “Srecko with his name, apparently received.

Since 1979 in psychiatry used the term “Stendhal Syndrome” to describe psychosomatic disorder (rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, confusion …), which is most common among tourists who are exposed to the observation of works of art of exceptional value or when a person is faced with great beauty in nature. In “Arrival in Florence” Stendal describes his first encounter with this city: “The thought that I was in Florence and proximity to the great men whose graves I saw filled me as a kind of ecstasy.

Engrossed in watching sublime beauty, I saw her up close, almost touching it. I’ve got to that excitement where the blissful feelings that provides arts bordering the feelings of passion. Emerging from Santa Croce I had palpitations, what Berlin called ‘nerves’. I was completely exhausted, it seemed to me that I will not fail. Two days later, when I remembered that his excitement, I came up to me very confident of ideas: it is better, I told myself, that man is doing his happiness knows how to feel as I do, but have the highest medal. “