Victor Hugo

May 29th, 2007

as long as we are in the Marais, i should mention la maison de Victor Hugo. his name always brings out phantasmagoric memories of Quasimodo and the Thnardiers! Hugo has been as great as Tolstoy to make great “movies” of human lives in the absence of film and now thanks to Disney, every kid in the world knows about the hunchback of Notre Dame; “War and Peace” and “les Misrables” should wait a little longer to get “animated” i guess…

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“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.” Victor Hugo

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One Response to “Victor Hugo”

  1. Entropy Says:
    September 12th, 2007 at 5:30 am

    Victor Hugo’s Les Miserable (1862) contains one of the longest sentences in French language. The author crafted a barely readable 823 words before finally hitting the breathless reader with a full stop…

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