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Victor Hugo
Hugo
also: Виктор Гюго
Victor Hugo (1802-1885), the French Romantic novelist, poet, and dramatist whose sweeping melodramatic style is the target of the mock-dedication in Chekhov's parody novel.
Reading notes
- My Jubilee §6 Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo (1802-1885), the French Romantic novelist and poet; the mock-novel's overblown dedication to him signals the parody's target -- the excesses of French Romantic and feuilleton melodrama.
- To Al. P. Chekhov, 18 November 1888. Moscow. §2 on the day of Victor Hugo's death
Victor Hugo, named in the source with no gloss required; Chekhov recalls short, elegant speeches delivered in the French legislative chambers on the day of his death (22 May 1885) as models of oratory for the instructor's request.
- Notebooks. Diaries §3786 Hugo
Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French Romantic novelist and poet, grouped with Homer and Dickens as writers this character finds reassuringly "elemental" rather than genuinely disturbing.
- Artists' Wives §107 Victor Hugo
The French Romantic novelist and poet, invoked here as a fellow celebrity visitor to Lisbon and, pointedly, as a writer Amaranta actually admires -- unlike her husband's work.