L'homme qui rit: la grande fresque de la justice et du mal, entre l'aveugle, le défiguré et le saltimbanque
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Jamais Hugo n'a été aussi loin dans le fantastique. Le naufrage de la chaloupe sur les écueils de la Manche, l'enfant sous le gibet, la scène de torture dans les cachots de la tour de Londres, le saltimbanque avec sa roulotte et son loup dans l'Angleterre de la reine Anne...
Il y a bien sûr l'amour, les méchants, l'aventure et les hasards. Et les magnifiques monologues de Gwynplaine face aux Lords, ou les improvisations d'Ursus pour son loup.
Hugo écrit en exil. C'est sa dette à l'Angleterre qu'il paye, c'est sa dette à la mer, où commence et finit le livre.
Qui aime Hugo connaît les splendeurs, les terreurs, les grimaces et les rêves de L'homme qui rit.
Et pour le découvrir ou le relire, le voici en numérique...
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About the author
Victor Marie Hugo, Born in Besancon, France and lived there most of his life. He decided to live in exile as a result of Napolean III’s coup at the end of 1851 where Victor openly declared Napolean a traitor to France and did not return until Napolean was forced from power in the Franco-Prussian War in 1873. After the death of his mother in 1821 Victor married his childhood sweetheart, Adele Foucher, and they had five children. He published his first novel in 1823, followed by five volumes of poetry between 1829 and 1840. Hunchback of Notre Dame was published in 1831, his first full length novel and quickly translated into numerous languages. Victor describes his shock and grief at the death of this daughter in 1843 in a poem called A Villequier. Victor started LesMiserables on social injustices and it would take 17 years to be published in 1862. When he was in his seventies, Victor suffered a mild stroke, his daughter Adele’s admittance to an insane asylum, and the death of his two sons. He celebrated his 80th birthday with a celebration and was presented with the Sevres vase, a gift for sovereigns. He died in 1885 and it generated national morning.
