Victor Hugo
1802 – 1885 · France · Literature
Les Misérables made poverty a moral emergency for a continent.
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Who shaped Victor Hugo, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- Dante Alighieri
1265 – 1321 · Literature, Philosophy
The Commedia's moral architecture stands behind Hugo's vast redemptive novels.
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- Leo Tolstoy
1828 – 1910 · Literature, Philosophy
Tolstoy called Les Misérables the greatest novel; War and Peace answers its scale.
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