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Which novelist recognized Stendhal's talent in an 1840 article about The Charterhouse of Parma?
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Stendhal
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
The novelist who recognized Stendhal's talent in an 1840 article about The Charterhouse of Parma was Honoré de Balzac.1
Writing in La Revue parisienne, Balzac was the only contemporary critic to identify Stendhal's genius as a novelist at that time.1