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0668-2338-01 | Victor Hugo 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The course will examine the character and the great body of works of Victor Hugo, the greatest French writer of the 19th C, and the head of the Romantic revolution. The author of the Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables was also a prolific and diverse poet, a groundbreaking playwright, and a political thinker who fought for democracy and social justice.
Lectures will be accompanied by selections from movies based on Hugo’s works.