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

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From: Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Date: 20040922
Author:Roche, Isabel K.

Friedemann, Joe. Victor Hugo, un temps pour rire. Paris: Librairie A.-G. Nizet, 2001. Pp. 191. ISBN 2-7078-1265-X

In this study, Joe Friedemann seeks to develop our understanding of an important but extremely fluid aspect of the Hugolian corpus: that of le rire. While critical attention bas been fruitfully devoted to the related but divergent concepts of fantasy, humor, and the grotesque, the phenomenon of laughter in Hugo's body of work and its implications have hot been the focus of detailed exploration. Friedemann argues that laughter, as expressed through a variety of ...

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