VICTOR HUGO: A BIOGRAPHY
Book ID/图书代码： 11701217B98122
English Summary/英文概要： Victor Hugo was the most important writer of the nineteenth century in France: leader of the Romantic movement; revolutionary playwright; poet; epic novelist; author of the last universally accessible masterpieces in the European tradition, among them Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He was also a radical political thinker and eventual exile from France; a gifted painter and architect; a visionary who conversed with Virgil, Shakespeare, and Jesus Christ; in short, a tantalizing personality who dominated and maddened his contemporaries. 16 pages of halftones
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 维克多·雨果是十九世纪法国最重要的作家:浪漫主义运动的领袖，革命剧作家，诗人，史诗小说家，欧洲传统中最后一批普遍可读的杰作的作者，其中包括《悲惨世界》和《巴黎圣母院》。他还是一位激进的政治思想家，最终被法国驱逐出境;他是一位天才的画家和建筑师;一个与维吉尔、莎士比亚和耶稣基督交谈过的幻想家——简而言之，他是一位充满着时代魅力的人物，支配着同时代的人，也让这个时代的人们为之疯狂。
格雷厄姆·罗布(Graham Robb)写了一本非凡的传记，充分公正地描述了主人公戏剧性的一生——罗布称他的一生是“文学史上最清晰的疯狂案例”。畅销书《发现法国》的作者罗布通过对这位文坛巨人的全貌和他的许多假象下，向我们展示了从大革命到二十世纪初法国和欧洲社会的全景。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：Like Proust, his fellow countryman, Victor Hugo is a writer whose works are discussed more often than they are actually read. Perhaps we had Les Misérables force-fed to us in school, or saw one of the many film versions of his novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, but of his many other works of prose, poetry and drama, most modern readers are ignorant--as they are of the details of Hugo’s life. In Victor Hugo, Graham Robb brings a fresh eye to an old subject with laudable results.
During his lifetime, Hugo himself was the author of most of the legend that has grown up around him, from his pastoral conception on a mountainside to his heroic republican opposition to Napoleon. Robb turns these myths inside out as he searches for the underlying compulsions that led Hugo to obsessively recreate his own history. Robb thoroughly and compassionately presents the tangled, sometimes sordid, often ridiculous events of Hugo’s life, at the same time commenting knowledgeably on his work. Victor Hugo is a terrific biography of a fascinating man, a great motivator for readers to start agitating for more translations of Hugo’s work. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author/作者介绍： 格雷厄姆·罗布(Graham Robb)1958年出生于曼彻斯特，曾任牛津大学埃克塞特学院院士。英国作家、历史学家。1987年至1990年间担任牛津大学埃克塞特学院研究员一职，自1998年起成为英国皇家文学学会会员。2009年被授予法兰西艺术与文学勋章骑士勋位(艺术与文学骑士勋章)，2012年被授予巴黎市金质奖章(Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris)。他和妻子玛格丽特住在英格兰-苏格兰边境。
罗布出版有多部法国文学与历史方面的著作。他于1997年出版的传记体文学作品《维克多·雨果》(Victor Hugo)获得英国皇家文学学会颁发的海涅曼图书奖(Heinemann Award)和惠特布雷德传记奖（Whitbread Biography Award），2000年出版的《兰波》(Rimbaud)一书入围塞缪尔·约翰逊奖(Samuel Johnson Prize)最终候选名单，并被《纽约时报》评为年度“编辑之选”书籍。《发现法国》(2007年)获得了达夫·库珀奖和英国皇家文学学会翁达杰奖。新作《巴黎人：探寻巴黎历史的神奇之旅》(Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris)荣登《星期日泰晤士报》(Sunday Times)十大畅销书榜单。Graham Robb is an acclaimed historian and biographer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has won the Whitbread Biography Prize and the Heinemann Award for Victor Hugo, as well as the Ondaatje Prize and Duff Cooper Prize for The Discovery of France. He lives on the English-Scottish border (and within a day’s ride of one hundred and seventy cols).
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