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Dosya Açıklaması : Novelist, poet, and dramatist, the most important of French Romantic writers. In his preface to his historical play CROMWELL (1827) Hugo wrote that romanticism is the liberalism of literature. Hugo developed his own version of the historical novel, combining concrete, historical details with vivid, melodramatic, even feverish imagination. Among his best-known works are The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Misérables. Victor Hugo was born in Besançon as the son of a army general, who taught young Victor to admire Napoleon as a hero. After the separation of his parents, he was raised and educated in Paris by his mother, where the family settled when Hugo was two. His mothers lover, General Victor Lahorie, her husbands former Commandin Officer, was executed for plotting against Napoleon in 1812. From 1815 to 1818 Hugo attended the lycée Louis-le Grand in Paris. He began in early adolescence to write verse tragedies and poetry, and translated Virgil. In 1819 he founded with his brothers a review, the Conservateur Littéraire. Inspired by the example of the statesman and author François René Chateaubriand, Hugo published his first collection of poems, ODES ET POÉSIES DIVERSES. It gained him a royal pension from Louis XVIII. As a novelist Hugo made his debut with HAN DISLANDE (1823). The style of Sir Walter Scott labelled several of his works, among them BUG-JARGAL (1826). In 1822 Hugo married Adèle Foucher (d. 1868), who was the daughter of an officer at the ministry of war. His brother went insane on his wedding day - partly because losing his rivalry for Adele - and spent the rest of his life in an institution. In the 1820s Hugo come in touch with liberal writers, but his political stand wavered from side to side. In 1825 he cursed the memory of Napoleon but a few years later he started to speak of the glory that was bound up to the name of Napoleon. Hugos foreword for his play CROMWELL (1827), a manifesto for a new drama, started a debate between French Classicism and Romanticism. However, Hugo was not a rebel, and not directly involved...