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From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife
Date: 20071201
Author:Hughes, Austin; Valiunas, Algis

Though Algis Valiunas' overview of Victor Hugo's life and work ("The Sacred Heart of Victor Hugo," August/September) made for an entertaining romp, one statement therein should not go unchallenged. Valiunas lists Balzac among nineteenth-century authors "soaked ... in skepticism or even nihilism," while he includes Victor Hugo among those who "upheld the old godly truths." Baizac's personal life was admittedly a mess--a problem he shared with other French Catholic writers of the Romantic era, including Chateaubriand, Mme. De Stael, and Barbey d'Aurevilly. But Balzac had a ...

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