About love

About the book in this book Stendhal presents love not indirectly like pure flowing water that runs from the spring of the pure soul and flows in the channels of the self and its courses, carrying emotions, feelings, sensations, and reactions, and hindered in its path by inherited customs and traditional practices. This love, which borrows its nobility from the nobility of the soul, encounters the sincere rush of it with what stirs in the self of fear, shyness, modesty, decency, and the restrictions of social and religious traditions that political regimes favor, adopt, and impose by force and tyranny, and with hatred, malice, envy, jealousy, arrogance, pride, pretense, artificiality, triviality, possession, and ownership, all of which Stendhal mentions in this book. But not in a dry, strict, and constrained scientific style, but with complete freedom and ease, supported by examples and stories from reality. He unleashes his thoughts to organize as he wishes and as he desires in sentences and paragraphs, often finding them intertwined and interconnected like the mixing of feelings with sensations, emotions with reactions, and each reader sees it as suits him and fits his ability, capacity, and competence. Publication year 2021 Author: Stendhal Translation: Bassam Asif Publisher: Jadal Publications Number of pages: 206