Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaThe price of the difference in The Man who laughs, a historic novel by Victor Hugo
This paper discusses the relationship between equality and difference in The Man who Laughs (1869), by Victor Hugo. This historical novel is a study of the English aristocracy at the time of the Glorious Revolution (1688) and its main character is the son of a noble family. His face was mutilated by...
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Lettres Françaises
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/lettres/article/view/9059 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/63670 |
| Sumario: | This paper discusses the relationship between equality and difference in The Man who Laughs (1869), by Victor Hugo. This historical novel is a study of the English aristocracy at the time of the Glorious Revolution (1688) and its main character is the son of a noble family. His face was mutilated by the comprachicos, and he is stigmatized because of this. The present study highlights the fact that Hugo had already explicitly described, in the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, the conflictive relationship between equality and difference, which can be seen in present days. |
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