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The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Miserables.(Book review)
From: ForeWord
Date: 20070701
Author:Davis, Tim
Work Title: The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Miserables
Work Author(s): Mario Vargas Llosa, author; John King, translator
Princeton University Press
208 pages, Hardcover $24.95
Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780691131115
Reviewer: Tim Davis
Warning: Do not trust fiction that offers "the temptation of the impossible." That was critic Alphonse de Lamartine's 1862 reaction to Victor Hugo's gargantuan novel, Les Miserables. Now readers of Mario Vargas Llosa's intriguing new book can discover what Lamartine meant and why he was so very ...
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