RUY BLAS - Softcover

Hugo, Victor; Zaragoza, Georges

 
9782011667274: RUY BLAS

Synopsis

Espagne, fin du XVIIe siècle. Don Salluste, marquis disgracié pour avoir fréquenté une servante, nourrit une terrible vengeance. Lorsqu'il apprend que son valet, Ruy Blas, est amoureux de la reine, il lui propose d'endosser l'habit de son cousin, Don César, pour la séduire. Cependant, le royaume chancelle. Les ministres s'enrichissent et profitent des circonstances, sans pitié pour le pays. La reine, charmée par l'intégrité de Ruy Blas qu'elle prend pour Don César, lui déclare son amour. Mais le piège élaboré par Don Salluste se referme inéluctablement sur les deux amants... Ce drame en cinq actes, composé en alexandrins, est un chef-d'oeuvre du romantisme et figure parmi les pièces les plus représentées du dramaturge.

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About the Author

The best-known of the French Romantic writers, Victor Hugo was a poet, novelist, dramatist, and political critic. Hugo was an avid supporter of French republicanism and advocate for social and political equality, themes that reflect most strongly in his works Les Mis?rables, Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), and Le Dernier jour d'un condamn? (The Last Day of a Condemned Man). Hugo s literary works were successful from the outset, earning him a pension from Louis XVIII and membership in the prestigious Acad?mie fran?aise, and influencing the work of literary figures such as Albert Camus, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Elevated to the peerage by King Louis-Philippe, Hugo played an active role in French politics through the 1848 Revolution and into the Second and Third Republics. Hugo died in 1885, revered not only for his influence on French literature, but also for his role in shaping French democracy. He is buried in the Panth?on alongside Alexandre Dumas and ?mile Zola.

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