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Victor Hugo

Laurence M. Porter

出版	Twayne Publishers, 1999
主題	Literary Criticism / European / French
ISBN	08057165219780805716528
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=M8dcAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

One of the most renowned figures in French literature, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) is also the most widely read French novelist in the English-speaking world, owing to the continuing popularity of his two most important novels, Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) and Les Miserables (1862). Despite this prestige, however, Hugo has often been unfairly maligned by some academic critics who have demeaned his accomplishments as both a poet and novelist by calling him a mere popularizer with a fertile imagination. These critics have argued that Hugo's greatness resides not in the production of refined and well-crafted works but in his energy, genius for self-promotion, patriotism, political courage, versatility in different genres, and massive output.