Hugo and the “ farouche[s] architecture[s]” du hasard

Journal: Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France
3 – 2021, 121e année, n° 3. varia
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Abstract: This article focuses on Hugo’s musings on the fierce natural architecture (mountains, sea cliffs) produced by chance—sublime, shifting, dreamlike. What happens to the architectural paradigm when a mysterious art of nature raises “monuments extra-humains” lacking an architect and foundation, exposed to the pressure of the infinite? How does one explain the existence of such seemingly anarchic architecture in travel as well as in fiction?
Number of pages: 252
ISBN: 978-2-406-12082-7
ISSN: 2105-2689
DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12082-7.p.0147
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
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Keyword: Hugo, architecture, nature, chance, cosmology, novel, romanticism