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Victor Hugo (Paperback)
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Victor Hugo (Paperback)
Series: Critical Lives
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Victor Hugo is an icon of French culture. He achieved immense
success as a poet, dramatist, and novelist, and he was also elected
to both houses of the French Parliament. Leading the Romantic
campaign against artistic tradition and defying the Second Empire
in exile, he became synonymous with the progressive ideals of the
French Revolution. His state funeral in Paris made headlines across
the world, and his breadth of appeal remains evident today, not
least thanks to the popularity of his bestseller, Les Miserables,
and its myriad theatrical and cinematic incarnations. This
biography, the first in English for more than twenty years,
provides a concise but comprehensive exploration of Hugo's
monumental body of work within the context of his dramatic life.
Hugo wrestled with family tragedy and personal misgivings while
being pulled into the turmoil of the nineteenth century, from the
fall of Napoleon's Empire to the rise of France's Third Republic.
Throughout these twists of fate, he sensed a natural order of
collapse and renewal. This unending cycle of creation shaped his
ideas about freedom and roused his imagination, which he channeled
into his prolific writing and other outlets like drawing. As
Bradley Stephens argues, such creative intellectual vigor suggests
that Hugo was too restless to sit comfortably on the pedestal of
literary greatness; Hugo's was a mind as revolutionary as the time
in which he lived.
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