VICTOR HUGO, CHIFFONNIER DE LA LITTÉRATURE

Balzac and Zola are but two of the 19th-century authors who created the small-scale narrative genre of the female “simple life” – featuring a poor, wandering heroine to whom very little happens, except internally. These novels are marked by the emergence of the Sublime within the bleakest forms of realism.

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