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by Victor Hugo

Author:	Victor Hugo
Subcategory:	Classics
Language:	English
Publisher:	Nabu Press (October 10, 2010)
Pages:	586 pages
Category:	Fiction and Literature
Rating:	4.6
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Translated by Joseph L. Blamire (1888). Book I night not so black as man. I Portland bill.

Translated by Joseph L. Part one: the sea and the night. Two preliminary chapters. V The tree of human invention. VI Struggle between death and night. VII The north point of portland. Book 2 the hooker at sea.

The Man Who Laughs book. Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs (first published under the French title L'Homme qui Rit in April 1869) is a sad and sordid tale - not the sort of tale of the moment Hugo was known for. It starts on the night of January 29, 1690, a ten-year-old boy abandoned - the stern men who've kept him since infancy have wearied of him.

A Romance of English History. Ursus Another Preliminary Chapter. Part I. Book the first

A Romance of English History. Book the first. night not so black as man. I. Portland Bill II. Left Alone III.

Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885) wrote L'Homme Qui Rit ( The Man Who Laughs ) in 1869. One of the greatest French novelists.

The Man Who Laughs is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme . The hooker at sea. Superhuman Laws II. Our First Rough Sketches Filled in III.

The Man Who Laughs is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui rit. Also published under the title. Troubled Men on the Troubled Sea IV. A Cloud Different from the Others enters on the Scene V. Hardquanonne VI. They Think that Help is at Hand VII.

The best word to describe this book is "emotional. I found the description of the relationship between Gwynplaine and the little girl really touching. Even though I wasn't familiar with this kind of feeling before, I must say I truly understood everything they felt for each other. I read many books related to this age, but this one in my opinion details everything in the clearest possible way. In conclusion, I advise everyone reads this book, particularly those who have a special interest in this dark age and for those who like truly emotional love stories.

Chapter 1. It is Through Excess of Greatness that Man Reaches Excess of Misery. And what had they laughed at? At his laugh

Chapter 1. As midnight tolled from St. Paul’s, a man who had just crossed London Bridge struck into the lanes of Southwark. And what had they laughed at? At his laugh. So that trace of a hateful act, of which he must keep the mark for ever - mutilation carved in everlasting gaiety; the stigmata of laughter, image of the sham contentment of nations under their oppressors; that mask of joy produced by torture; that abyss of grimace which he carried on his features; the scar which signified Jussu regis, the attestation of a crime.

VICTOR HUGO'S long and chequered life (1802-85) was filled with experiences of the most diverse character - literature and politics, the court and the street, parliament and the theatre, labour, struggles, disappointments, exile and triumphs

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Comments:

Helo

Saintsbury called L'HOMME QUI RIT "the maddest book in recognized literature", and I can't improve on that judgment.

LES MISERABLES has been harshly criticized as the most bombastic, digressive 19th century novel, and the same could be said of THE ;LAUGHING MAN--that is, it's bombastic and digressive to the nth degree but I don't intend that as a negative criticism.

It's a waste of time to read Hugo's novels unless you accept that he was a literary monstre sacree. You read him because you're fascinated by the twists and turns of his mind and imagination, not for rigorous attention to perfect form and well-judged content. Stendhal's comment that Hugo exaggerated shamelessly is true but irrelevant if you read him on his own terms.

I won't describe the plot, the mere scaffolding on which Hugo hangs his fluid pudding of words, but pace Henry James, THE ;LAUGHING MAN will entice you into turning pages a lot more compulsively than, say, THE GOLDEN BOWL.

F.R. Leavis would sneer at this book, as would James, as would Percy Lubbock, as would Jane Austenites like Robert Liddell. From their worthy points of view, they'd be correct, but I'd say there's room in the universe of great imaginative literature for a Hugo, as well as a Rabelais and a Celine. Untamed imagination may not be great art, but it's still worthy reading.