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Victor Hugo 5: autour des 'Orientales'.(Book Review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20040701
Author:Nurnberg, Monica

Victor Hugo 5: autour des 'Orientales'. Ed. by CLAUDE MILLET. Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2002. 218 pp. 922 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91040-7.

Claude Millet has put together a pleasingly symmetrical and compelling set of articles on Hugo's dazzling early collection Les Orientales. The essays are paired, two each on literary/generic elements of the recueil, the evolution from Odes et ballades to Les Orientales, and the reception of the work at different periods. In an annexe, Jean-Marc Hovasse, who has earlier examined the reactions of the Parnassians to Les Orientales, ...

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