Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
dal 9/10/2008 al 31/1/2009
Segnalato da
9/10/2008
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Maison de Victor Hugo, Paris
A novel and two exhibitions
Two City of Paris museums (the Musée Carnavalet and the Maison de Victor Hugo) are joining forces to explore this universal masterpiece by Victor Hugo, a work whose plot is shot through with the history and spirit of the French capital.
The exhibition at the Maison de Victor Hugo aims at catching all the reality of the novel. True, everyone knows Les Misérables – Jean Valjean, Javert, Fantine, Cosette, Gavroche and the others. We've seen the musical, studied excerpts at school. But the real, original book – have we actually read it? This surprising, unexpected exhibition mingles history and fiction, emotion and meditation, and works of the 19th and 20th centuries as it captures the many voices of a novel which Victor Hugo himself described as "one of the high points, if not the high point of my œuvre."
The Musée Carnavalet's contribution focuses on Paris, that vital main character in Hugo's book: a city open to all the revolutions of modernity while still a mass of medieval alleyways and hovels dating from the Dark Ages. Each slum dwelling, each narrow lane is explored in an investigation that plunges the reader into the heart of the plot as he stalks Jean Valjean, Cosette, Fantine, Marius and the sinister Javert.
Musée Carnavalet
23, rue de Sévigné - 75003 Paris
Tél. : 01 44 59 58 58
Open daily from 10am to 6pm, except Mondays and public holidays.
Maison de Victor Hugo
Paris Francia
6, place des Vosges
Open daily from 10am to 6pm, except Mondays and public holidays.