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With trenchant realism and profound understanding, Matthew Josephson presents in VICTOR HUGO the realistic biography of a great romantic who wrote Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Name, among others. Of tremendous sweep and scope, it is a penetrating analysis of a literary titan, who as a political pamphleteer, playwright, novelist, and romantic lover, dominated his time, influenced his peers, and moved the hearts of men. Matthew Josephson, whose Stendhal, Zola, The Robber Barons, and Rousseau defined him as a master of the art of biography, has given us in VICTOR HUGO a highly readable account of this vigorous, zestful, and fruitful career. VICTOR HUGO is the final and definitive work on "France's prince of poets and lord of language." EARLIER BOOK REVIEWS "Matthew Joseph's third full-blown biography of a great French writer.is the best. There is more color and drive in it .because the materials are so rich." New York Times Book Review (1942) "Victor Hugo's varied and colorful career offered Josephson a perfect opportunity to display again his gift for spirited narrative and keen characterization. He skillfully traces Hugo's conversion from literary great to political hero. Along the way he adds texture to his portrait by interweaving the fascinating components of Hugo's personal life -his marriage to Adele Foucher, his fifty-year liaison with Juliette Drouet, and his friendship and betrayal by Sainte-Beuve.Victor Hugo's life was a success story without parallel, and it provided an apotheosis of Josephson's point about the duty of writers in times of social and political crisis. The critics again praised Josephson's talents as a biographer." - David E. Shi, Matthew Josephson: Bourgeois Bohemian, Yale University Press, 1981" No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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232 The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo (read 27 Jan 1946)
1325 Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo (read 13 Apr 1975)
1326 Ninety-Three - Things Seen, by Victor Hugo (read 20 Apr 1975)
1329 Victor Hugo: A Realistic Biography of the Great Romantic, by Matthew Josephson (read 28 Apr 1975)
3132 Victor Hugo, by Graham Robb (read 27 Nov 1998)
3690 The Battle of Waterloo, by Victor Hugo translated from the French by Lascelles Wraxall (read 30 Jan 2003)
The Robb biography is far superior to the Josephson biography, so I suppose nobody will again read the older biography.] ( )