Volume : II, Issue : II, November - 2012

Victor Hugo: The Versatile Romantic

Rounak Mahtab

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Victor Hugo was one of the greatest romantic writers of France. A versatile and freethinking personality, he gave a huge impulse to the Romantic Movement as he made his immense contribution to French literature and culture, as a novelist, a dramatist, and a poet. The genius of Hugo lies in the fact that he gained both literary acclaim as well as public adulation for his enormously popular novels and his intensely lyrical poetry that was characterised by ‘powerful sounds and rhythms’. The precocious talent of Victor Hugo was evident only after the publication of Odes et Ballades that demonstrated Hugo’s prowess in narration and rhyme, and revealed his intense passion and natural fluency. However, the genius of Hugo as a novelist was only revealed in Le Dernier jour dun condamné which would go on to have profound influence over a host of literary legends who would later wield their pen. Hugo experienced unprecedented success with the publication of the Notre–Dame de Paris and Les Misérables. Today Les Misérables remains one of the most enduring books across the world and has been made into movies, television drama, and stage production. Hugo had maintained strong political and social views and sought to articulate them in the legitimate institutions. In 1941, he was made the pair de France and admitted into the Higher Chamber where he made his presence felt by advocating for freedom of press and self– government. However, the over–through of the parliamentary government by Napoleon III, forced Hugo with into exile in Guernsey, where he would live from 1855 to 1870.

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Rounak Mahtab Victor Hugo: The Versatile Romantic Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.II, Issue.II November 2012

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