God And The End Of Satan Selections In A Bilingual Edition by Victor Hugo and translated by R. G. Skinner

This is poetry from France.

God And The End Of Satan Selections In A Bilingual Edition by Victor Hugo translated by R. G. Skinner is published by Swan Isle Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780983322047E12.

God and the End of Satan, selections by Victor Hugo translated by R. G. Skinner, brings English readers into Hugo’s vast religious and cosmic imagination. This is not the tidy Hugo of classroom reputation, but a poet thinking at mythic scale: God, evil, fall, redemption, revolt, and the enormous theater of metaphysical struggle. A bilingual edition matters because Hugo’s music and rhetoric are inseparable from the ambition of the work. Skinner’s translation gives the English-language reader access to a visionary nineteenth-century mode that can feel excessive by contemporary standards, but the excess is part of the point. I would read this for grandeur, thunder, spiritual drama, and the strange courage of a poet willing to stage the universe.

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