#victor hugo

[dloeza]

javert & fantine

[weirdlookindog]

Émile Bernard (1868–1941) - Satan is dead; be reborn, O celestial Lucifer!

engraving for Victor Hugo’s “La Fin de Satan” 1935 edition

[ladymoonstardust]

I saw so many people say that *insert Les Amis de l’ABC member* is so *insert Taylor Swift song* coded but like. NO. Mind you, Les Amis would’ve hated that woman, and after my fyp is plagued with these edits I cant anymore. Like do you really think that a group thats all about politics and rights would fw a woman as problematic as her? NO. I won’t begin the whole rant of points on how and why she’s problematic (although I could) but long story short, NOT A SINGLE LES AMIS IS SO TSWIFT CODED

[szczue]

concept of les miserables fanart.... yeah this is javert and jean. im currently on the first book but i already love them

[petaltexturedskies]

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

[trashpoppaea]

Aleks Nievazki, who lived in Manchester, was an immensely talented artist active from 2016-2020. This is what I could find of his work-- it's beautiful and inspirational. He frequently drew and painted book accurate depictions of Dom Claude Frollo, the antagonist from Victor Hugo's classic novel Notre Dame de Paris, also known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He was apparently also fond of drawing Dante, Othello and characters from other Hugo novels like Gwynplaine. He had a sure hand, a confident sense of line, and a deep emotion that infuses all his work.

This is most of what I could find. I'm sorry that I couldn't find anything else.

[jeena-says-hi]

Oh god

Oh no

[fateandloveentwined]

the musical and the brick: congruence

You know how I always said bring him home should not be in les mis, and it is not canon? I mean, it just occurred to me that even though Valjean didn’t save Marius at that time, he did eventually, and he even blessed Cosette and Marius’ marriage despite his unwillingness to do so, going so far as to proclaim his life’s work ended. And he saved Javert at that time, a far greater fear of his own (or was it that his love for Cosette surpassed that fear for his own imprisonment), showing how he has always been about love and redemption. It made me think, and I realise the tone of bring him home has never been wrong. You change some things and shift some timeframes in adaptations, and who am I to complain about one of the best numbers of this masterpiece?

(I didn’t get bring him home that much at the start. But someone close passed away, I looped it, and yeah, at times like those you suddenly see what the song is really about, and it’s beautiful.)

And when JVJ really sings it at the ending, it is so true to the story.

And same goes for the do you hear the people sing reprise at the finale. Because Victor Hugo wanted to write about fading into nihility. He wanted to write about death, about how lives don’t matter a hundred years down the road. Revolutions fade, compassion and genuine love and forgiveness reigns. But he wrote this in the 1850s, in the wake of France's 1848 revolution mess and he himself in self-imposed exile, the glaring failure of the second republic and the irony of napoleon III’s ascension shoved in his face. So he’s disillusioned with uprisings. He wants peace. But above all he still longs for liberty and egalite—at that point in the course of history we don’t even know if he still believes in the possibility of such a future. So instead Hugo writes about the fading of things, he writes about religion and he writes about love and compassion, he chooses to end the story with the fading life of Jean Valjean rather than the conviction of liberty of the ABC’s.

Despite all this, for just a little or a lot, in the heaven faraway and some time in their near future, for at least a brief respite of time, the chorus rings of a la volonte du peuple, and I suppose it will be what he wished for.

The musical is pretty congruent, all things considered.

(recommendation of the day: I was listening to Chris Jacobsen's BHH which made me write all this. So blame him.)

[🕯️les mis index]

[quoth-the-goblin-nevermore]

At the barricades of freedom *vague sizzling of cooked meats*

[finchknits]

My boyfriend and I are watching Ratatouille and he made a comment about the complexity of the sewers at the beginning.

So I, a nerd, go "oh boy do I have a book for you!"

Amd he goes "oh? What book goes that in depth about the Parisienne sewers system?"

And my friends, he was shocked at my answer.

[ueinra]

Some low ratings for Les Misérables that I liked on Goodreads.

[dloeza]

to have a brother who is an archdeacon and an idiot

[weirdlookindog]

Charles Daubigny (1817–1878) - Gibet de Montfaucon

illustration from Victor Hugo's novel ‘Notre-Dame de Paris’, édition Perrotin, 1844

engraved by Adèle Laisné

source

[maggie44paint]

"I wish to write bl about parisian sewer system," victor hugo (1862), probably

[johnadamsbignaturals]

the end of les mis is so fucking good. like, yeah we just turned this whole ending around from a feeling of tragedy and profound loss to one of hope, interconnectedness, and an understanding that the bounds of human love and the innate bonds in the rich tapestry that our lives are woven together into exceed even death. that loss will not stop the future, because the memories of those who dreamed of change will always live on. and this all is achieved in like 20 seconds before credits roll.