This is Victor Hugo. In 1817, the prestigious Académie Française, awarded one of his poems honorable mention. Although the judges could not believe it was written by a 15-year-old boy.

The nature of interaction in a troubled space is at the heart of Gaëlle Bélem ’s absorbing There’s a Monster Behind the Door, ...

Flaubert and Victor Hugo. Professor Brombert had been one of the Ritchie Boys, a group with foreign language skills who gathered battlefield intelligence for the U.S. Army.Credit...via Brombert ...

Victor Brombert, the Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance ... Brombert wrote 16 books, including acclaimed works on Stendhal, Flaubert, Balzac, Hugo and Baudelaire, and contributed to many ...

Australia’s theatre scene is set to dazzle in 2025 with an exciting array of musicals and stage productions, ranging from ...

"He was a hell of a teacher," Jim Lynch, one of his former students, said. "I can't express how great he was and how much he ...

From Italian Renaissance poetry to experimental Modernism in France ... probably the world’s most famous independent bookshop, or visit Maison de Victor Hugo and explore the Les Misérables novelist’s ...

Poet Sylvia Elia Vargas presented her debut book, Echoes of the Muse, at a TAMIU event, sharing insights into her creative ...

The museum’s poet in residence for 2024 is putting poetry by deaf and hard-of-hearing artists on display. Abby Haroun performing at the Guggenheim on Wednesday night. Among her poems was one ...

From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their ...