The 'Man Who Laughs .. not to cry poverty and much of his humanity.
I recently found out just a bit 'more seriously, Monsieur Hugo ( better late than never ), and more precisely his The Man Who Laughs . And I also discovered (again mtcm) that in 1940 the writer Bill Finger and Bob Kane comic artist used the picture that the German actor Conrad Veidt gave the main character in the novel 'The Man Who Laughs ' by Victor Hugo, this Gwynplaine, as inspiration for creating Joker, a worthy adversary of Batman. The similarity between Gwynplaine and The Joker is just visual, the two sides have no other similar, indeed, I would definitely disagree.
I had never been interested in the text Man Laughing , but passing an average of ten times a day (holy cabinet of mom), I opened it, standing, thinking I would put back where it was.
But with a starting so ... " Ursus and Homo were close friends: Ursus was a man, Homo was a wolf. Their inclination was granted . ... What to say .... frigate.
Ursus and Homo are living in hardship and popular entertainment complementing each other, Ursus is a bit 'all primarily misanthrope, then juggler, ventriloquist, fortune teller, doctor improvised .. \u0026lt;. .> "The truth is that Ursus was a saccentone, a man of taste and an old Latin poet; \u0026lt;...> From his familiarity with the venerable rhythm and meter of the ancient houses, made of their images and a series of classical metaphors. He said a mother preceded by his two daughters, is a typist ; a father followed by his two sons, is a anapaest , and trotting in the midst of a child to his grandfather and grandmother, is a anfimacro . A lot of science could not land hunger . \u0026lt;...> ( then as now ).
Ursus and Homo save a boy and a girl. Both physical characteristics are well defined: the first, Gwynplaine, with a stiffness constant that leads him to face always looks with the rice, the second Dea, blind. The four no longer leave and work together as acrobats. As long as Gwynplaine, the man who laughs, turns out to be member of the English aristocracy and you must return.
The false world, narrow, closed aristocratic throws him into a deep despair [\u0026lt;...> In the destiny of every man can be an end of the world made just for him. It's called desperation. The soul is full of shooting stars . \u0026lt;...>], much that will do everything to return to his real world, Ursus, by Homo, by Dea. \u0026lt;...> One woman on earth saw Gwynplaine. And it was that blind . \u0026lt;...> ------- ------- Victor Hugo wrote The Man Who Laughs in 1848, in exile and published only in 1869. He was exiled for having ceased to support the future emperor, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, who had taken anti-liberal measures such as reduction of one third of those entitled to vote; Hugo, defender of a liberal regime , it begins to attack him and the whole aristocracy with writings and speeches against the repression, which became gradually more and more intolerant. So Hugo speaks through his Gwynplaine \u0026lt;...> The man is an amputee. What has been done to me, was done to mankind. They've distorted the law, justice, truth, reason, intelligence, like me your eyes, nostrils and ears. Like me, the heart was placed in a cesspool of anger and pain on his face a mask of contentment. \u0026lt;...>
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Looking at the biography of Victor Hugo , I had the 'hunger' to read its social and political writings, speeches and personal opinions on major current issues ( so different from ours? ). Most of these can be found grouped in the acts and words :
- against child labor (speech to the Chambre des pairs, 1847);
- against poverty (July 9, 1849);
- on the status of women in (at funerals George Sand, June 10, 1876);
- against religious education and in favor of free and secular school (Speech about the education law, January 15, 1850);
- in favor of peace and unity of Europe Federal (at the opening of the Congress of Peace, August 21, 1849);
- in favor of universal suffrage.
Victor Hugo has also expressed - although to a lesser extent - on colonization of Algeria, the main colonial adventure of France in those years. If it is sensitive to the discourse of colonization as a civilizing, remains skeptical about the ability of the civilizing military pacification, and identifies nell'Algeria earned a place used to deport those who opposed the coup of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.
do not know what I'd give to be able to just browse and Parole Acts But the web does not help me in research. And I do not think tomorrow to find them among the best sellers at the bookstore. Ergo, I'll try the library, and if anyone ever had there ... I'm here!
