/lit/ - Literature

>Moreover, you should never tell a woman a word difficult to understand. She will dream about it, and she often dreams falsely. An enigma in a reverie spoils it. The shock caused by the fall of a careless word displaces that against which it strikes. At times it happens, without our knowing why, that because we have received the obscure blow of a chance word the heart empties itself insensibly of love. He who loves perceives a decline in his happiness. Nothing is to be feared more than this slow exudation from the fissure in the vase.

What do we think of Victor Hugo?

>writes 1500 page epic
>titles it “the miserables”
why have we forgotten this art?
>inb4 French grammar lesson correcting my translation

>and then the Bishop met retard rich asshole number 43433, and then made an extremely witty comeback to him, anyway here's his budget and the specifics of his home, and also this isn't even relevent to the rest of the book
haven't even broke page 100 and already love the guy

Why is Victor Hugo such a contentious author? People seem to either love him or despise him.

How come he never won a Hugo award?

If it was accepted back then Hugo would have been a massive fucking troon and you can’t change my mind.

Why is he never discussed in /lit/? He’s almost completely ignored here.

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Name a more based french writer, I will wait.

Where do I start with him? What’s his best work? Anything important I should know before reading?

Is Hugo even worth reading in English? Not just in the "nothing should be read in translation!" meaning, but compared to other writers? Dosto, Proust, and Dumas have different translations that are highly praised, but with Hugo it always seems that the consensus is "I guess it works". I feel like I'm missing out on him entirely by not knowing French. Anyone here read Hugo in translation?

Victor Hugo was greater than Shakespeare in every way

And nah this isn't up for discussion actually

Honor the Ballsack

>The word is the verb, and the verb is God

I notice that authors I think are trash tend to have a very limited vocabulary when it comes to verbs. They can use as many fancy nouns, adjectives, etc. as you like, but if 'be' is the lexical verb in the majority of their sentences, then I tend to disengage. Even the overuse of 'be' as an auxiliary verb followed by a participle – 'He was running' – seems weak compared to dropping the auxiliary entirely - 'He ran'.

Obviously 'be' is (see what I did) an important verb and needs to be used. However, because it is a stative verb describing such an all-encompassing process (i.e, being), the result of overuse tends to be, at least in my experience, bland.

What do you think?

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>Victor Hugo

What do you think of Victor Hugo?