Dostoevsky one of all time greatest writer praised Hugo to be the greatest, that must mean something. Regarding my personal experience, I only read miserables from Hugo and it was really something. When I was reading it, I just had such an enthusiasm about everything mentioned in the book. My best friend is a bit like Hugo's writing we'd start talking about something and next thing I realise that an hour later we talk about the canal system of England, and an other hour and we're back to the original topic. I like this kinda story telling. I remember when I was a kid we had it on kids channel as a cartoon, now thinking about it, I was quite exposed to Franch contents, but it's also worth mentioning that it was in Hungary, nothing Anglo-Saxon
Yes it's true, each culture really has its wealth to contribute. I'm nostalgic because once our language was spoken all over Europe and our culture was admired but the English ended up overtaking us, damn Waterloo 🤣
For me, it has some hidden charm and easier to admire a culture who didn't conquer my homeland and tried to erase my language😂 and Waterloo was rather the rest of Europe ganging on France rather than the English. They probably not once in their entire history won a 1v1 battle against an other European nation.
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The only book of his that I actually read is The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which was great. Of course, I've seen various versions of Les Miserables. I imagine that the book is great, but I've never read it. I'm ashamed to say that I'm unfamiliar with his other work.
Hugo is basically considered the Shakespeare or Cervantes of French, in the way that his works tend to constitute the zenith of the modern incarnation of the language. Maybe he's underappreciated in the Anglosphere, but elsewhere he's considered one of the greatest early novelists in human history.
I prefer his contemporary Alexandre Dumas in that regard. But I do like Hugo, but mainly for his political and anti-religious stances rather than the quality of his writing.
My pet (pronounced the French way, Ygo) is named after him.
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He may have been a great writer. Personally, I have not much affinity to literature from his time period. These guys were addressing their contemporaries - I feel quite separated from those. Since publication the world has added more details to our reality/realities. So this portion of books -to me- is good to understand pieces of history... however: these are pieces that I heard of elsewhere already.
Haven't read much of him. I know he wrote Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables, but not much else.
Like one of the other comments said, I probably like Dumas more if only because of Count of Monte Cristo, and even then, if only because of Shawshank Redemption.
Haha it's great, although Paris bad now, Paris has become very dirty and the mayor of Paris is starting to put monuments of modern art which is really ugly
yes I am only 24 years old I have them on October 6th. I lack a lot of knowledge but I try to improve it as much as I can, anyway thank you very much 😊 the conversation with you is also very pleasant
