(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)It has been said that Victor Hugo has a street named after him in virtually every town in France. A major reason for the singular celebrity of this most popular and versatile of the great French writers is Les Misérables (1862). In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.Les Misérables is at once a tense thriller that contains one of the most compelling chase scenes in all literature, an epic portrayal of the nineteenth-century French citizenry, and a vital drama highly particularized and poetic in its rendition but universal in its implications of the redemption of one human being.
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Victor Hugo est né à Besançon en 1802. Tout en suivant des études de philosophie et de mathématiques au lycée Louis-le-Grand, il s'adonne déjà à la poésie. Il obtient ses premiers succès avec les Odes et Poésies diverses (1822) et s'impose comme chef de file du mouvement romantique après l'ardente " bataille " autour de son drame Hernani (1830). Dès lors, sa réputation ne cesse de croître (Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831, Ruy Blas, 1838, Les Rayons et les Ombres, 1840) ; il se tourne vers la politique, et rejoint le camp des " libéraux ". Mais le coup d'État de Napoléon III le contraint à un long exil. Réfugié à Guernesey, il multiplie les chefs-d' uvre : Les Châtiments (1853), Les Contemplations (1856), Les Misérables (1859), La Légende des siècles (1859-1883). Après la chute du second Empire (1870), son retour en France est triomphal. Il ne cessera d'écrire (Quatrevingt-treize, roman, 1874, L'Art d'être grand-père, 1877) jusqu'à sa mort en 1885 à Paris, suivie de monumentales funérailles nationales au Panthéon.
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