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Han d'Islande
by
Victor Hugo
L'auteur de cet ouvrage, depuis le jour où il en a écrit la première page, jusqu'au jour où il a pu tracer le bienheureux mot FIN au bas de la dernière, a été le jouet de la plus ridicule illusion. S'étant imaginé qu'une composition en quatre volumes valait la peine d'être méditée, il a perdu son temps à chercher une idée fondamentale, à la développer bien ou mal dans un p...more
Paperback, 570 pages
Published
November 1st 1981
by Gallimard Education
(first published 1823)
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My second experience reading Victor Hugo. Considering that my first experience was with an English translation of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"--I stopped at page 99 and the plot still hadn't begun--I was surprised at the lack of description, but also pleased that I enjoyed it.
Once I got through the first few chapters, I found the novel to be a quick enough read. The plot advances almost as directly as an adventure/quest film, and because the narration follows many...more
My second experience reading Victor Hugo. Considering that my first experience was with an English translation of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"--I stopped at page 99 and the plot still hadn't begun--I was surprised at the lack of description, but also pleased that I enjoyed it.
Once I got through the first few chapters, I found the novel to be a quick enough read. The plot advances almost as directly as an adventure/quest film, and because the narration follows many...more
Robert Bly once said of a poem by Wallace Stevens that "it was as bad a poem as it is possible for a genius to write." I thought of that when reading this book. After Les Miserables and Notre Dame de Paris, it's hard to imagine that this work flowed from the same pen. There are flashes of the human insight and profound pathos that characterises the other two books, but they are few and far between. On the whole, this one book of Victor Hugo's is deservedly ignored.
I suppose that it does have th...more
I suppose that it does have th...more
This is a very dark, violent story set in Norway in the year 1699. The plot is complicated and there are many grotesque characters. Including the title character who kills people and drinks their blood. There are many twists and turns of the plot which makes for much suspense. Another character is an unlucky executioner.
Not the greatness of the mature Hugo, but I thought it was a great read still.
I liked it, but seemed a little repetitive to me. The story jumps between scenes of political intrigue, longing romance, then Hans of Iceland killing people for the love of killing people, amazing coincidence that links more political intrigue, heart-wrenching longing romance, and Hans of Iceland killing, mutilating, and drinking the blood of his victims from his son's skull. Repeat this a few more times and you have the gist of the story.
My kindle version of this book repeated a section, at least I think it did. I am giving up.
One bad ass MF Hans was, the devil inside, thank God for the Orderner in me...
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Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France.
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