Satan and His Daughter, the Angel Liberty - Selected Verses - Softcover

Hugo, Victor

 
9780997228731: Satan and His Daughter, the Angel Liberty - Selected Verses
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0997228733 ISBN 13: 9780997228731
Verlag: Swan Isle Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Victor Hugo spent years in political exile off the coast of Normandy. While there, he produced his masterpiece, Les Misérables—but that wasn’t all: he also wrote a book-length poem, La Fin de Satan, left unfinished and not published until after his death.

Satan and his Daughter, the Angel Liberty, drawn from this larger poem, tells the story of Satan and his daughter, the angel created by God from a feather left behind following his banishment. Hugo details Satan’s fall, and through a despairing soliloquy, reveals him intent on revenge, yet desiring God’s forgiveness. The angel Liberty, meanwhile, is presented by Hugo as the embodiment of good, working to convince her father to return to Heaven.

This new translation by Richard Skinner presents Hugo’s verse in a unique prose approach to the poet’s poignant work, and is accompanied by the Symbolist artist Odilon Redon’s haunting illustrations. No adventurous reader will want to miss this beautiful mingling of the epic and familial, religious and political.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Victor Hugo (1802–85) was one of the giants of French literature, writing poetry, novels, and plays. Richard Skinner is a poet and independent scholar.
 

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Verlag
Swan Isle Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0997228733
ISBN 13 
9780997228731
Einband
Taschenbuch
Zeichner
Redon Odilon
Anzahl der Seiten
124
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