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Victor Hugo: the ghost in the pantheon.
Victor Hugo was born two hundred years ago this year and his countrymen have been trying ever since to contain him. They resorted first to the tried-and-true: ostracism and outrage at his brazen Romanticism followed by acclaim and fervid acceptance. When this failed to muzzle him, they elected him to a position in the Assemblee; the transcripts of his speeches there are punctuated with such exclamations as "great sensation among the audience" and "tumults of applause." They then accorded him a seat beneath the monumental cupola of the Immortals at the Academie Francaise.
Hugo, avid if not insatiable, gulped down outrage and prestige equally with the alacrity of a ...
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- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) February 16, 2002 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Augustyn, Joanna July 1, 2008 700+ words
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