Victor Hugo
17 Bücher
- Yes, it's huge, and Hugo will stop everything for fifty pages on the Paris sewers, but Jean Valjean lifting that cart, or the bishop handing over his candlesticks, will sit in your chest for years. Skim the digressions if you must; the mercy at the center holds.
- Ce premier tome, Fantine, s'ouvre sur le bon évêque Myriel et l'ancien forçat Jean Valjean qu'il accueille, puis suit Fantine, une jeune mère qui s'épuise pour payer la pension de sa fille Cosette. Hugo digresse à loisir.
- You read it for the strange, crowded life Hugo builds around the cathedral: Esmeralda, Quasimodo, Frollo, and even the bells feel painfully alive. It wanders into long architectural and historical digressions, but if you have patience, that slowness gives the tragedy a huge, echoing weight.
- Hugo consacre des chapitres entiers aux pierres de la cathédrale et à une vue à vol d'oiseau du Paris médiéval, autour d'Esmeralda la danseuse, de Quasimodo le sonneur sourd et de Frollo, l'archidiacre tourmenté. C'est lent par moments, et bien plus sombre que le dessin animé.
- Gilliatt, um pescador solitário de Guernsey que os ilhéus tomam por feiticeiro, parte sozinho para resgatar a máquina de um navio a vapor naufragado num recife. Hugo gasta páginas com o mar e o tempo, e depois há a luta com o polvo.
- You get a stubborn, solitary hero in Gilliatt, a sea salvage ordeal, and Hugo’s wonderfully strange attention to rocks, weather, machinery, and an octopus. It’s long-winded and occasionally theatrical, but if you enjoy endurance tested against a whole landscape, its roughness becomes part of the pleasure.