'Still grips the reader with its epic-narrative sweep and all-embracing humanitarianism' Douglas Kennedy, Sunday Times
'Still grips the reader with its epic-narrative sweep and all-embracing humanitarianism' Douglas Kennedy, Sunday Times
Victor Hugo (Author)
Victor Hugo (1802-85), novelist, poet, playwright, and French
national icon, is best known for two of today's most popular world
classics- Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, as well
as other works, including The Toilers of the Sea and The Man Who
Laughs. Hugo was elected to the Academie Fran aise in 1841. As a
statesman, he was named a Peer of France in 1845. He served in
France's National Assemblies in the Second Republic formed after
the 1848 revolution, and in 1851 went into self-imposed exile upon
the ascendance of Napoleon III, who restored France's government to
authoritarian rule. Hugo returned to France in 1870 after the
proclamation of the Third Republic.
Date- 2013-08-06
Victor Hugo (1802-1885), novelist, poet, and dramatist, is one of
the most important of French Romantic writers. Among his best-known
works are The Hunchback of Notre Dame(1831) and Les
Miserables(1862).
INTRODUCER BIOGRAPHY-
Jean-Marc Hovasse is Director of Research at the CNRS (Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique) in Paris. One of France's
leading specialists in 19th-century French literature, he is
writing a monumental biography of Victor Hugo of which the first
two volumes were published in 2001 and 2008.
Victor Hugo (1802-85) was the most forceful, prolific and versatile
of French nineteenth-century writers. He wrote Romantic costume
dramas, many volumes of lyrical and satirical verse, political and
other journalism, criticism and several novels, the best known of
which are Les miserables (1862) and the youthful Notre-Dame de
Paris (1831).
A royalist and conservative as a young man, Hugo later became a
committed social democrat and during the Second Empire of Napoleon
III was exiled from France, living in the Channel Islands. He
returned to Paris in 1870 and remained a great public figure until
his death- his body lay in state under the Arc de Triomphe before
being buried in the Pantheon.
Adam Thirlwell (Introducer)
Adam Thirlwell was born in London in 1978. The author of three
previous novels, his work has been translated into thirty
languages. His essays appear in the New York Review of Books and
the London Review of Books, and he is an advisory editor of the
Paris Review. His awards include a Somerset Maugham Award and the
E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters;
in 2018 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He
has twice been selected by Granta as one of their Best of Young
British Novelists.
There are plenty of translations of this extensive, exuberant novel
that cut out anything superfluous. But God is in the detail, and
Julie Rose has returned all the detail, making a language that is
rich and gorgeous. This is the one to read... and if you are
flying, just carry it under your arm as you board, or better still,
rebook your holiday and go by train, slowly, page by page...
*The Times*
This new translation...marvelously removes the yellowed varnish
from Hugo's prose and gives us the racy, breathless, and passionate
intelligence of the original
*Adam Gopnik*
One of the finest French Romantic writers
*Guardian*
I sobbed and wailed and thought (books) were the greatest
things
*Susan Sontag*
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo changed my life. The first time I
read the book was when I was less than eight years old. I could
only understand the part about little Cosette, but that chapter
really got me
*Financial Times*
There are plenty of translations of this extensive, exuberant novel
that cut out anything superfluous. But God is in the detail, and
Julie Rose has returned all the detail, making a language that is
rich and gorgeous. This is the one to read... and if you are
flying, just carry it under your arm as you board, or better still,
rebook your holiday and go by train, slowly, page by page... --
Jeanette Winterson * The Times *
This new translation...marvelously removes the yellowed varnish
from Hugo's prose and gives us the racy, breathless, and passionate
intelligence of the original * Adam Gopnik *
One of the finest French Romantic writers * Guardian *
I sobbed and wailed and thought (books) were the greatest things --
Susan Sontag
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo changed my life. The first
time I read the book was when I was less than eight years old. I
could only understand the part about little Cosette, but that
chapter really got me -- Xinran * Financial Times *
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