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Victor Hugo, un temps pour rire.(Book Review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20050701
Author:Porter, Laurence M.

Victor Hugo, un temps pour rire. By JOE FRIEDMANN. Saint-Genouph: Nizet. 2002. 204 pp. 22 [euro]. ISBN 2-7078-1265-x.

Five of the seven chapters of Joe Friedemann's study of the comic in six novels and one volume of rhapsodic essays (Han d'Islande, Notre-Dame de Paris, Les Miserables, William Shakespeare, and L'Homme qui rit) previously appeared as articles, between 1987 and 1995. Only the introduction and conclusion, and two chapters (on Bug-Jargal and Le Dernier Jour d'un condamne; on the poetry), are new.

The introduction recalls that in 1840 Hugo personified four ...

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