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Roche, Isabel. Character and Meaning in the Novels of Victor Hugo.(Book review)

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From: Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Date: 20070322
Author:Brix, Michel

Roche, Isabel. Character and Meaning in the Novels of Victor Hugo. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 2007. Pp. ix + 242. ISBN: 1-5575-3438-1.

De nombreux critiques ont affirme que les personnages constituaient la partie faible de la creation romanesque de Hugo. Sont notamment stigmatises le manque d'epaisseur psychologique de ces personnages, ainsi que la tenuite apparente de leurs relations avec l'environnement social. Hugo aurait montre, sous cet angle, un genie litteraire tres inferieur a celui d'un Balzac ou d'un Stendhal. Isabel Roche nous invite, dans le present essai, a ...

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