Victor Hugo †Les Miserables

maestro Marie Hugo was the son of a universal in Napoleons army, and oftentimes of his childhood was therefore worn-out(a) amid the backdrop of Napoleons campaigns in Spain and in Italy. The counterbalance trinity age of his tone were spent in Elba, where he learnt to speak the Italian dialect spoken in the island in addition to his mother tongue. Victor got a slight education in a small school. At the age of eleven, Hugo returned to live with his mother in Paris, where he got a little education in a small and where he also became senseless with books and literature.By the time he was fifteen, he had already submitted one poem to a contest sponsored by the prestigious French Academy. There he learnt much from an old soldier, General Lahorie, who, obnoxious to Napoleon for the share he had taken in Moreaus plot, lived secretly in the house, and from an old priest named Lariviere, who came every twenty- quadruplet hours to teach Victor and his two brothers. In 1815, at the age of thirteen, he was sent to a boarding school to prepare for the Ecole Polytechnique. But he devoted himself, even at school, to verse-writing with keener ardour than to study.He wrote in wee youth more than one poem for a prize competition, constitute a ro piecece which some years later he lucubrate into the story Bug Jargal, and in 1820, when only eighteen, joined his two brothers, Abel and Eugene, in publishing a literary journal called Le Conservateur Litteraire. Hugo published his first novel the year following his marriage (Han dIslande, 1823) and his second tercet years later (Bug-Jargal, 1826). By the end of 1822 Victor Hugo was fully launched on a literary calling, and for twenty years or more the story of his life is mainly the story of his literary output.Because of his successful drama Cormwell, the preface to which, with its quality of defiance to literary convention, caused him to be definitely accepted as the doubt of the Romantic School of poetry. The rev olution of 1830 disturbed for a moment his literary activity, but as soon as things were quiet again he shut himself in his study with a bottle of ink, a pen, and an bulky pile of paper. For six weeks he was never seen, except at dinner-time, and the leave behind was The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831).During the next ten years four volumes of poetry and four dramas were published in 1841 came his election to the Academy, and in 1843 he published Les Burgraves, a drama which was less successful than his former plays, and which marks the close of his career as a dramatist. In the same year there came to him the greatest sorrow of his life. His most famous poem was Demain, des laube in which he describes the crucial moment where he visits his daughters grave. As Hugo grew older, his politics became more and more leftist, and he was forced to flee France in 1851 because of his opposition to the monarch Louis Napoleon.Hugo remained in exile until 1870, when he returned to his home co untry as a field hero. He continued to write until his death in 1885. He was hide with every conceivable honor in one of the grandest funerals in advance(a) French history. The Book Les Miserable Hugo began writing Les Miserables twenty years out front its eventual publication in 1862. His goals in writing the novel were as lofty as the reputation it has subsequently acquired Les Miserables is primarily a great humanitarian work that encourages compassion and hope in the face of sorrow and injustice.It is also, however, a historical novel of great scope and analysis, and it provides a detailed vision of nineteenth-century French politics and society. By coupling his story of redemption with a meticulous documentation of the injustices of Frances recent past, Hugo hoped Les Miserables would encourage a more progressive and democratic future. Driven by his commitment to reclaim and progress, Hugo wrote Les Miserables with nothing less than a literary and political revolution in mind.Les Miserables employs Hugos style of imaginative realism and is set in an artificially created human hell that emphasizes the three major predicaments of the nineteenth century. Each of the three major characters in the novel symbolizes one of these predicaments Jean Valjean represents the degradation of man in the proletariat, Fantine represents the subjection of women through hunger, and Cosette represents the atrophy of the child by darkness. In part, the novels fame has endured because Hugo successfully created characters that serve as symbols of larger problems without world flat devices.