Clavis Libri

Theme

Happiness

What it means to live well: happiness, fullness, contentment, the good life and what prevents it.

The Red and the Black

Stendhal

the discovery, in prison, that he was happy only when he did not calculate, in chapters 31 to 45 of Book II.

White Nights

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

the epigraph and the happy "until tomorrow" (First Night), the new dream that is new happiness (Second Night), the fever of joy after the opera (Nastenka's story, Second Night), Nastenka's happy wait (Third Night), the plans for a life in common (Fourth Night), and the minute of bliss (Morning).