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Article: Pich, Edgard. Victor Hugo, le quoi et le pourquoi.(Book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Pich, Edgard. Victor Hugo, le quoi et le pourquoi. Lyons: J2C/Aldrui Editions, 2004. Pp. 105. ISBN 2-9061-9610-x.
This volume of Collection XIXe siecle (Edition Diffusion) assembles six studies by Edgard Pich that are loosely threaded by a focus on Hugo's period of exile. Yet as Pich remarks in the short preface, his purpose neither in the individual essays nor in the entire collection is to revisit Hugo's exile years by way of biographical interpretation or even attention to thematic concerns, but to ask what for him is a more fundamentally pressing and basic question: What is Hugo saying at this unique and privileged moment of his trajectory as a writer, how is he saying ...