Contemplations - Softcover

Hugo, Victor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2040284028 ISBN 13: 9782040284022

Publisher: Dessain et Tolra, 1998

Synopsis

" Qu'est-ce que les Contemplations ? C'est ce qu'on pourrait appeler (...) les Mémoires d'une âme. " PREFACE " Je vis cette faucheuse. Elle était dans son champ. (...) Noir squelette laissant passer le crépuscule. " MORS " Depuis quatre ans, j'habite un tourbillon d'écume ; Ce livre en a jailli. Dieu dictait, j'écrivais ; Car je suis paille au vent. Va ! dit l'esprit. Je vais. " A CELLE QUI EST RESTEE EN FRANCE

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dessain et Tolra
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2040284028
• ISBN 13: 9782040284022
• Binding: Paperback