* Girard, maintaining that mimetic desire holds a universal, central importance even in the works of “non-Christian” novelists, counts Stendhal as an atheist—even though Stendhal’s two greatest novels begin in a seminary (The Red and the Black) or end in a monastery (The Charterhouse of Parma). Moreover, Stendhal’s personal and vehement rejection of the Catholic Church is itself a form of engagement with Christianity.
* According to a note in the Pléiade edition, what Stendhal wanted to forget were “all the wrongs and misdeeds committed by the Catholic religion.”
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