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Victor Hugo: A Biography

September 5, 2017

Reading Les Miserables many years ago was nothing less than a life-changing experience. Subsequently, I read The Hunchback of Notre Dame with much less effect, but the message of Les Miserables has remained etched in my mind. It was not until pre-reading for a trip to France that I ran across this biography by Graham Robb and realized how little I actually knew about Victor Hugo, the man.

I had previously read Graham Robb’s Historical Geography of France and wanted to know more about Hugo, so I plunged into this lengthy book. You really can’t read Graham Robb fast because he’s always tossing out incidental things to ponder.

This book greatly facilitates one’s understanding of French history and the reasons for the rise of socialism. The traditional techniques for oppressing the masses are exposed in French history: religion, imprisonment, pre-education, police power, and fake news. Unquestionably, the profiting of the few over the many and the unequal distribution of resources is contradictory to Christ’s message. Early Euro

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Victor Hugo

French writer and politician (1802–1885)

For other uses, see Victor Hugo (disambiguation).

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo^[1] (French:[viktɔʁmaʁiyɡo]^ⓘ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms.

His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862). In France, Hugo is renowned for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages). Hugo was at the forefront of the Romantic literary movement with his play Cromwell and drama Hernani. His works have inspired music, both during his lifetime and after his death, including the opera Rigoletto and the musicals Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris. He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment and slavery.

Although he was a committed

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Major new biography of Victor Hugo, the man behind Les Misérables

Victor Hugo is written by Dr Bradley Stephens from the Department of French at the University of Bristol and published by Reaktion Books for their ‘Critical Lives’ series – ‘beautifully produced and short critical biographies’, according to the Times Literary Supplement, that are targeted at a general audience.

Internationally famous for his classic novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (more commonly known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), Hugo is a national icon in France, on the same level as Shakespeare and Dickens in the United Kingdom.

His work remains as popular in the 21^st century as it did in his own lifetime. The BBC is currently screening its major new adaptation of Les Misérables while the well-known musical stage-show is on national tours in both the UK and the USA, and both Netflix and Disney have recently announced new live-action film versions of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. January also sees the return to London