ROFLMAO! That is freakin' hilarious - and perhaps apropos, as Hugo has an awful chapter about the Paris sewer system. I kind of wanted to poop on the book a few times... Hugo is seriously wordy (the French version comes in TWO VOLUMES) and goes off on these ridiculous tangents. One of the things we learned in class is that he wasn't really trying to tell a good story. He was memorializing the pre-Haussmann Paris, and using the book as a vehicle to make statements about religion, politics, and culture. The plot was somewhat incidental, lol.
Also, I don't really deserve many props. I'd already read it in English, so it was totally cheating to take the class in French. :)
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Date: Jun. 21st, 2010 03:05 am (UTC)ROFLMAO! That is freakin' hilarious - and perhaps apropos, as Hugo has an awful chapter about the Paris sewer system. I kind of wanted to poop on the book a few times... Hugo is seriously wordy (the French version comes in TWO VOLUMES) and goes off on these ridiculous tangents. One of the things we learned in class is that he wasn't really trying to tell a good story. He was memorializing the pre-Haussmann Paris, and using the book as a vehicle to make statements about religion, politics, and culture. The plot was somewhat incidental, lol.
Also, I don't really deserve many props. I'd already read it in English, so it was totally cheating to take the class in French. :)