French Literature Reviews - 2026

Victor Hugo (1802-2003). Images et transfigurations
Writers: Biography, Letters and Memoirs

Victor Hugo (1802-2003). Images et transfigurations

Proceedings of the "Imago Hugolis" colloquium organized by the Montréal College of Sociocriticism

Edited by Maxime Prévost and Yan Hamel

Montréal, Fides

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Table of Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgments 7

Yan Hamel (Université de Montréal)

Maxime Prévost (McMaster University)

Media and Mediums

The Mediation of Tragedians: Marie Dorval 15

Pierre Popovic (Université de Montréal)

The Mysteries of Jersey: Representations of Hugo as a Spiritualist 29

Maxime Prévost (McMaster University)

For Esmeralda: Notre-Dame de Paris on Screen 43

Michel Condé (Centre culturel Les Grignoux, Liège)

Victus, sed Victor: Notes on the Photographs of Exile 61

Pascal Brissette (McGill University)

Ceci tuer@-t-il cel@? 77

Benoît Melançon (Université de Montréal)

Readers and Transmitters

Hugo Would Say: "I was closer to God than to humanity!" 91

Isabelle Daunais (Université Laval)

Victor Hugo in Quebec 107

Micheline Cambron (Université de Montréal)

Léon Daudet on Victor Hugo: Things Seen 139

Marc Angenot (McGill University)

Café au Lait with Vinegar and Mustard: Passages of 151

Victor Hugo in Walter Benjamin

Éric Méchoulan (Université de Montréal)

The Sublime Ham and the Wet Blankets: Sartre, Hugo, and 163

Modernity

Benoît Denis (Université de Liège)

From One Victor to Another 175

Gilles Marcotte (Université de Montréal)

Victor Hugo (1802-2003). Images et transfigurations gathers contributions from scholars examining how the work, persona, and image of Victor Hugo have been interpreted and transfigured across different media and cultural contexts. The chapters investigate diverse subjects ranging from theatrical representations and spiritualist photography to cinematic adaptations and critical receptions by subsequent writers and thinkers. Readers interested in nineteenth-century French literature, reception studies, and the history of cultural representations may find this collection relevant.