Victor Hugo( February26,1802-May22,1885)
Novelist, poet, and dramatist, the most important of French Romantic writers. In his preface to his historical play CROMWELL (1827) Hugo wrote that romanticism is the liberalism of literature. Hugo developed his own version of the historical novel, combining concrete, historical details with vivid, melodramatic, even feverish imagination. Among his best-known works are The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Misérables.
Selected works: Day of Condemned Man,1829
The Hunchback of Notre Dame,1831
Autumn's Leaves,1831
Kurjat,1862
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