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The sacred heart of Victor Hugo.(The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Miserables)

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From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife
Date: 20070801
Author:Valiunas, Algis

The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Miserables By Mario Vargas Llosa Princeton University Press, 208 pages, $24.95

The most potent philosophers and scientists of the nineteenth century--Schopenhauer, Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche--saw their main undertaking as dethroning the Christian God and relegating the soul to a mere adjunct of the body, if not abolishing it altogether. Some of the finest artists of the time--Balzac, Flaubert, George Eliot, Turgenev--took the latest intellectual news to heart and soaked themselves in skepticism or even nihilism, as flamboyant ...

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