Résumé
It has been said that Victor Hugo has a street named after him in virtually every town in France. A major reason for the singular celebrity of this most popular and versatile of the great French writers is Les Misérables (1862). In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean — a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert — Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.Les Misérables is at once a tense thriller that contains one of the most compelling chase scenes in all literature, an epic portrayal of the nineteenth-century French citizenry, and a vital drama — highly particularized and poetic in its rendition but universal in its implications — of the redemption of one human being.One of the half-dozen greatest novels of the world. —Upton SinclairThe greatest of all novels. —Leo TolstoyHugo is unquestionably the most powerful talent that has appeared in France in the nineteenth century. —Fyodor DostoyevskyI sobbed and wailed and thought [books] were the greatest things. —Susan Sontag
Auteur
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Né en 1802, Victor Hugo est l’auteur emblématique du Romantisme français. C’est avec Cromwell, publié en 1827, qu’il expose sa vision de la littérature débarrassée des règles contraignantes de la tragédie. C’est un véritable succès, qui va se transformer en “bataille” lors de la représentation de sa pièce Hernani, en 1830, où le modernisme prend la figure de Victor Hugo. Son positionnement politique, tout aussi moderne, l’entraîne à s’exiler pendant 20 ans, suite au coup d’état du 2 décembre 1851 qui proclame le Second Empire. Auteur de poésies, romans, pièces de théâtre, Victor Hugo est mort en 1885 et son corps repose au Panthéon.
Caractéristiques
Publication : 10 octobre 2020
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]
Protection(s) : Aucune (ePub)
Taille(s) : 2,36 Mo (ePub)
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9789897782367