Volume 45, Number 20 · December 17, 1998
Giant
By Simon Leys
Victor Hugo: A Biography
by Graham Robb
Norton, 682 pp., $39.95
Shadows of a Hand: The Drawings of Victor Hugo
by Ann Philbin, by Florian Rodari
The Drawing Center/Merrell Holberton, 160 pp., $44.00 (paper)
Early in his career, Henry James lived for some time in Paris. Since he needed money, he worked for a while as a correspondent for The New York Tribune.[2] In his dispatch of January 1876, he reported on Victor Hugo's latest political activities. The old poet-cum-prophet had been pleading with the representatives of all the municipalities of France for the restoration of Paris as the national capital—a status which the city had lost after the bloody suppression of the Commune by the Versailles government five years earlier. James wrote:
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