Conversations With Eternity: The Forgotten Masterpiece of Victor Hugo

by Victor Hugo, John Chambers, Martin Ebon (Introduction)

Presents a record of Victor Hugo's conversations with the dead.

Genres: Spirituality, Nonfiction, Classics, France

260 pages, Paperback

First published November 9, 1998

About the author

After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).

This poet, playwright, novelist, dramatist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, and perhaps the most influential, important exponent of the Romantic movement in France, campaigned for human rights. People in France regard him as one of greatest poets of that country and know him better abroad.

Reviews

[Richard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very fluffy but the only book I've seen about Hugo's magical workings.

[laur · Rating 3 out of 5]

90% commentary, 10% victor hugo's actual writing

[Mariluz GH · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bueno, el tema no es precisamente de mis preferidos. No creo absolutamente nada en mediums y demás, pero "estamos" en el siglo XIX y hablamos del gran Víctor Hugo. Lo mejor del libro, para mí, son tanto la introducción de Martín Ebon, como las explicaciones del autor John Chambers; sin ellas el libro no pasaría de ser un "panfleto fruto de unas fiebres altas o un desvaído alucinógeno".