Episode 22 extras
May 22, 2018
Once again this week, no particular multimedia extras. Episode 23 will come with some cool stuff though--stay tuned!
The podcast (and I) will be on vacation for a couple of weeks; I hope to have the next episode ready for you on June 12, but won't be surprised if it's the 13th.
In the meantime, I may try to make...
Ep21 - II,7,i-viii - Life in Parentheses
May 15, 2018
We decipher Hugo's complex position on Jean Valjean's latest hideout.
Episode 21 extras
May 15, 2018
No particular extras for this week's episode, but I did mention in passing the Preface to Cromwell, linked to most recently in episode 20's extras....
Next week, we'll return from this heavily philosophical digression to one of the most charming sections of the novel!
Ep20 - II,6,i-xi - Cloistered
May 8, 2018
We discuss Hugo's take on life inside his fictional convent.
Episode 20 extras
May 8, 2018
I mentioned Chateaubriand's René; here it is in French and in English.
Another famous example of the convent as a place of retreat from the rigors of worldly love is in the late-eighteenth-century novel Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) by Choderlos de Laclos. It's a lot of novel for that one thing,...
