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Ursus and Homo were fast friends. Ursus was a man Homo a wolf. Their dispositions tallied. It was the man who had christened the wolf: probably he had also chosen his own name.
The recent success of the stage adaptation of Les Miserables has made Hugo's name widely known to the general public. Atlantean Press marks this resurgence with the inauguration of a series of re-published works by Hugo. The Man Who Laughs ( L'Homme qui rit , 1869), generally unavailable in English since the turn of the century, is the first volume in the series. This translation, by an unidentified translator, remains highly readable. The work itself, however, despite the touching tale of the love between the blind Dea and the deformed Gwynplaine, is highly stylized, extremely long, and often tedious. It will be interesting primarily for readers wishing to gain familiarity with a lesser known work by the father of French romanticism and with the tastes of the French reading public at the time.-- Anthony Caprio, Oglethorpe Univ., Atlanta
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Jessica Kaplan
reviewed The Man Who Laughs on March 28, 2020 The Man Who Laughs
From my personal perspective, this book is an UNSUNG MASTERPIECE.
Could it be a dark fable as well? I think so.
Hugo must have heard the story during his exile. It clicked for him, Big Time.
PERFECT! quoth he - for my disfigured hero will stand for all those who refuse to discontinue - despite the pressuring of authority - their eternal, unabashed public display of a POSITIVE, MORAL ATTITUDE.
Just like Victor Hugo himself.
So, he had a bit of black-humoured fun. In Paris, as in any modern country, dark deceit and hypocrisy ruled the roost.
Time to SHAKE THEM UP A BIT, ya think?
So he did.
And of course, like the poor hero of Les Misérables, Hugo was none too popular with la crème de la crème.
But guess what?
His readers (and now his film and musical viewers!) ADORED AND WILL ALWAYS ADORE him.
It doesn't hurt his storyline here that he added a bit of a beaut in the way of an innocent story of two simple hearts - WAY beyond the corruption of the 'normal' human heart!
And Hugo knew true love's ways RARELY survive the awful and onerous degradation of the jeering world.
There but for the Grace of God might have gone I...
He was an ethically-sound sort of PRACTICAL man, and hence he was a pessimist.
It's sad to lack Faith.
So yes - it IS a sad story.
Though you can hear the resounding echoes of unworldly Voltairean cackles throughout.
But it remains a novel with a Heart...
A broken, weeping heart.
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