L’Homme qui rit - Victor Hugo

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[Ebook reader of The Man Who Laughs]The Man Who Laughs is a philosophical novel by Victor Hugo published in April 1869, set in England at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th century.
He is particularly famous for the mutilated figure in permanent laughter of his hero which strongly inspired the literary and cinematographic world.Summary :For Paul Claudel, it is "an album of epic and panic lithographs", nothing less than "the masterpiece of the great poet".
Victor Hugo wrote The Man Who Laughs in two years, from 1866 to 1868, shortly after the publication of Workers of the Sea.
If it remains among the most unknown of Hugos novels, which even suffered from its lack of success , The Man Who Laughs is an impressive painting of aristocratic England at the dawn of the 18th century, at the time of Queen Anne.
It is the story of a child, Gwynplaine, marked by a scar which permanently gives him a terrible laugh, taken in with Dea, a young blind girl, by Ursus, a curious wanderer, a misanthropic philosopher, carrying around with him a wolf at home.
discretion of a poodle.
Together, they will form a company of mimes, until they recognize, in London, in this scarred man, a peer of the kingdom, Baron Clancharlie.
Finding his place in the House of Lords, he will be the ardent defender of the humble and the miserable...
This is a formidable epic, mixing idyll, apocalypse and fantasy, with dazzling images and vocabulary , shared between shadow and light, good and evil, irony and black humor.
The author has been criticized for putting too many settings, too many characters, for taking too many liberties with historical reality, for using too much bravado and dramatic twists.
It is precisely in this exaggeration, in this baroque abundance that The Man Who Laughs finds its richness and its splendor.(Audio book)