De toutes les créations - et elles sont innombrables! - qui sont nées de la plume, merveilleusement douée de Victor Hugo, celle qui reste la plus populaire, c’est son roman “Notre-Dame de Paris”. On rencontre ici, à son moment le plus sublime, le travail d’un grand talent. Grâce au don de Hugo de décrire les choses longtemps disparues de la manière la plus éclatante, grâce à son immense imagination créatrice, on se sent, dès les premières lignes du roman, dans le Paris de 1482 - dans son atmosphère, parmi ses habitants. Mais quand, après avoir lu le dernier mot, on ferma le livre et revient à 1952, on peut se demander: ces descriptions sont-elles vraiment historiques?- ces personnages qui pensent et agissent dans le vieux Paris, sont-ils vraiment du moyen âge? Cette thèse est une étude du. moyen âge dans “Notre-Dame de Paris”; le but est de montrer que Victor Hugo a créé un décor authentique, un tableau original et puissant, une vision hallucinante du vieux Paris et de sa grandiose cathédrale, mais qu’il n’a pas réussi dans ce cadre magnifique à mettre en scène des êtres qui, par leurs idées et leurs sentiments, évoquent leurs prototypes de 1482: l’intrigue mince, les personnages factices et conventionnels évoquent beaucoup plus des romantiques du XIXe siècle que des âmes du XVe siècle. Le premier chapitre est un coup d’oeil bref, et général sur le moyen âge chez Hugo. [...]

Diss. : Phil. : Freiburg i. B. : 1986.

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Victor Hugo is well known as a poet, a playwright and a novelist, but until recently he has not been recognized as a philosopher; for many years critics have admired the literary output of the man, but criticized the apparent contradictions and inconsistencies of his thought. Further studies have, however, revealed the true nature of Hugo's philosophy, and shown it to comprise a well thought out and coherent system. One of the most important themes in Hugo's work is that of human progress. In Les Misérables, Hugo's great novelistic masterpiece, he develops this theme and explores various of its aspects, treating at the same time many vital components of his philosophy. In examining the theme of progress in Les Misérables we have therefore sought to explore Hugo's ideology, as expressed in the novel, and to relate it to general nineteenth century currents of thought. This first necessitated a study of Hugo's religious beliefs, including his experiments with spiritualism and his belief in reincarnation and the hierarchy of beings. We then established the close relationship which exists between the poet's religious beliefs and his faith in the doctrine of progress Armed with an understanding of these basic principles, we then undertook a close textual analysis of the novel, examining Hugo's belief in the perfectibility of man and the perfectibility of society. Having laid the groundwork in Chapter I, we were therefore ready, in Chapter II, to study Hugo's belief in the progress of the individual : after looking at his portrayal of each level of the hierarchy of beings, we then looked at the various elements involved in the "progress" of the human soul, as illustrated by the characters in the novel. Then, in the third chapter, we approached the broader question of the progress of society and of Hugo's view of historical, political, social, economic and scientific progress. This in-depth study of one aspect of Victor Hugo's great novel thus led us to an understanding of the author's world-view, and of his conception of the relationship between man, God and the universe. It is a deeply religious, unique, and fundamentally optimistic philosophy, presented in a highly poetic manner. Although we may not accept all of Hugo's arguments, it is hard not to be stirred nonetheless by this thought-provoking work. / Arts, Faculty of / French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, Department of / Graduate

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Notre-Dame de Paris 1482, by Victor Hugo, is a work which collects many genres. This poetry however gives all signs of clumsiness (let us think of Gringoire's play or of Quasimodo's "verses"), of vulgarity (the language used by the rogues, Jehan Frollo's drinking songs), of analphabetism (a condition shared by Esmeralda, Quasimodo, and "le peuple"), of the secular, even more of the profane (the heresy and anticlericalism present in the novel). The poetry of Notre-Dame de Paris is scattered (dissipated) into a number of under-texts which appear to perturb the rules of "good" literature. / A first part of this thesis examines a few characteristics of the writing of Hugo: its tendency toward a certain declassification, as well as some of its most important aesthetics, such as the grotesque and the excessiveness. A second section is an analysis of different aspects of Gringoire's morality, songs of Jehan and Esmeralda, Quasimodo's "poem"--these aspects being studied through the element of locality and the theme of the volatile.