The Novels of Victor Hugo
FAIN: FA-10598-73
Victor H. Brombert
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ 08540-5228)
To do a study of the novels of Victor Hugo, exploring the relationship fiction and poetry in Hugo's practice; the relationship between moral, social consciousness and the poetic vision in the novels; the theme of redemption in social and metaphysical terms: the dream of abolishing all punishment as a program of political and moral progress.