HUGO, VICTOR

Additional reading Biographies include Andre Maurois, Olympio: The Life of Victor Hugo (1956, reissued 1985); Joanna Richardson, Victor Hugo (1976); and Elliott M. Grant, The Career of Victor Hugo (1945, reprinted 1969). John Porter Houston, Victor Hugo, rev. ed. (1988), is an introduction, focusing especially on his poetry and its technical aspects. An analysis of Hugo's romantic drama is found in Charles Affron, A Stage for Poets: Studies in the Theatre of Hugo & Musset (1971). Victor Brombert, Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel (1984), explores the symbolic and mythological character of Hugo's works and is illustrated with Hugo's drawings.