Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel

by Victor Brombert

Book Overview

Victor Brombert reassesses in a modern perspective the power and originality of Hugo's work, and provides a new interpretation of Hugo's narrative art as well as a synthesis of his poetic and moral vision. The twenty-eight drawings by Hugo reproduced in this book are further testimony to the visionary nature of Hugo's imagination.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674935500
• ISBN13: 9780674935501
• Release Date: September 1984
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.