David Bellos is a well-known translator of modern French fiction and the author of several prize-winning biographies of French literary figures. His irreverent study of translation, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? (2011), was a runner-up for theLos Angeles Times book prize and has itself been translated into Korean, Spanish, German, and French. He teaches French and Comparative Literature at Princeton University and holds the rank of Officier des Arts et des Lettres.
The definitive biography of the world’s most popular novel
Putting a century of scholarship on one of the world’s most enduring popular novels into accessible, narrative form, this new approach to a classic of world literature is written for a wide general readership. Packed full of information about the book’s origins and later career on stage and screen, The Novel of the Century brings to life the extraordinary story of how Victor Hugo managed to write his novel of the downtrodden despite a revolution, a coup d’état, and political exile; how he pulled off the deal of the century to get it published; and how he set it on course to become the novel that epitomizes the grand sweep of history in the nineteenth century. This biography of a masterpiece also shows how and why the moral and social messages of Les Misérables are full of meaning for our time.
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What keeps him going, moreover, is not just greed, but passion.
评分What keeps him going, moreover, is not just greed, but passion.
评分R4 read by Daniel Weyman. poverty, debts & crime; colour symbols; fictional characters living in non-existent houses; possession-emulation-conscience/God-duty; pet hates: bureaucratic myopia, mindless literalism, mental rigidity; moral progress. 明白了,不要纠结人物举动不符合性格逻辑,那都是象征。
评分What keeps him going, moreover, is not just greed, but passion.
评分What keeps him going, moreover, is not just greed, but passion.
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