Ruy Blas (in French) Classiques Larousse (French Edition) - Softcover

Victor Hugo; Larousse

Softcover

ISBN 10: 203585573X ISBN 13: 9782035855732

Publisher: French and European Publications Inc, 2010

Synopsis

.. Quel miracle que ta pièce, mon pauvre bien-aimé... Jamais je n'avais rien entendu de si magnifique... C'est une richesse, une magnificence, un éblouissement... mon esprit en est encore plus obscurci, comme quand les yeux ont trop longtemps fixé le soleil... " Juliette Drouet. " A propos, Ruy Blas est une énorme bêtise, une infamie en vers... " Balzac. " Quelle brusque et prodigieuse fanfare dans la langue que ces vers de Victor Hugo ! " Emile Zola. " ... ou Ruy Blas est une gageure contre le bon sens, ou c'est un acte de folie. " Gustave Planche. Un texte qui soulève des passions aussi contraires... Il ne reste vraiment plus qu'à le lire si l'on veut s'en faire une idée.

About this title

About the Author:

Victor Hugo's romantic melodrama Ruy Blas was first performed in 1838 for the opening of the Theatre de la Renaissance. There was a revival at the Odeon with Sarah Bernhardt in 1872, and at the Theatre-Francais in 1879.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and the most important of French Romantic writers. In his preface to his historical play Cromwell (1827) Hugo wrote that romanticism is the liberalism of literature. Hugo developed his own version of the historical novel, combining concrete, historical details with vivid, melodramatic, even feverish imagination. Among his best-known works are The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Misérables.

Victor Hugo was one of the greatest personalities of French literature. Though not without the faults and eccentricities which frequently characterize great geniuses, he never entered any field of literature without excelling in it. The novel, the lyric, the drama, criticism, all fell from his facile pen without apparent effort.

About this edition

• Publisher: French and European Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 203585573X
• ISBN 13: 9782035855732
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270