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The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Misérables Hardcover - 2007
by Llosa, Mario Vargas
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- Hardcover
It was one of the most popular novels of the 19th century, yet today Victor Hugo's "Les Misrables" is neglected by readers and undervalued by critics. One of the world's great novelists Llosa helps readers to appreciate the incredible ambition, power, and beauty of Hugo's masterpiece.
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- Title The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Misérables
- Author Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used: Good
- Pages 208
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
- Date 2007-04-23
- Features Annotated, Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # SONG0691131112
- ISBN 9780691131115
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Themes
- Cultural Region: French
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From the rear cover
"It is always interesting when a writer of Vargas Llosa's distinction discusses a great novelist, bringing to bear a luminous awareness of the craft of fiction. The Temptation of the Impossible is written with considerable zest, discrimination, and enthusiasm. Raising practical and theoretical points about the art of the novel, Vargas Llosa never loses sight of Hugo's specific achievement. I recommend this book without hesitation."--Victor Brombert, author of Trains of Thought
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 05/01/2007, Page 64
- Foreword, 07/01/2007, Page 78
- Library Journal, 05/01/2007, Page 81
- New York Review of Books, 06/28/2007, Page 52