Ruy Blas

Name: Ruy Blas
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Author: Victor Hugo
ISBN: 9782081393882

Victor Hugo

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À la cour des Habsbourg d'Espagne, alors que le règne de Charles II touche à sa fin, un valet revêt les habits de son maître et accède aux plus hautes sphères du pouvoir. Très vite, l'homme du peuple se révèle un être d'exception et suscite l'admiration de la reine dont il est secrètement amoureux. Mais le laquais, instrument d'une vengeance infâme, s'expose malgré lui à une chute funeste.
En 1838, cinq ans après l'immense succès de Lucrèce Borgia, Hugo met en scène un royaume qui expire et fait d'un manant l'égal des puissants. À ses contemporains, qui ont vu 1830 succéder à 1789, il fait entendre la voix du peuple et offre une méditation sur le devenir des régimes politiques. Emblème du drame romantique, alliant le grotesque au sublime et le comique au tragique, Ruy Blas est, selon le mot de Jean Vilar, une pièce « intense ».

Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician. His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862). In France, Hugo is renowned for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages). Hugo was at the forefront of the Romantic literary movement with his play Cromwell and drama Hernani. His works have inspired music, both during his lifetime and after his death, including the opera Rigoletto and the musicals Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris. He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment and slavery. Although he was a committed royalist when young, Hugo's views changed as the decades passed, and he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, serving in politics as both deputy and senator. His work touched upon most of the political and social issues and the artistic trends of his time. His opposition to absolutism, and his literary stature, established him as a national hero. Hugo died on 22 May 1885, aged 83. He was given a state funeral in the Panthéon of Paris, which was attended by over two million people, the largest in French history.