Victor Hugo
'The divine stenographer: Victor Hugo and the glory of narrative' by Brian Nelson
Brian Nelson
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
For many of his contemporaries, Victor Hugo (1802–85) was the most important literary figure of the nineteenth century. He was considered the greatest French poet; he became the leader of the Romantic movement with the staging of his anti-classical play Hernani (1830); and he wrote monumental, hugely popular novels. He was also an iconic political figure. ...
Published in
July–August 2011, no. 333