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- Victor Hugo’s Paris of Sewers‘a Paris... of mire... minus the human form’
- Abstract
- In the last part of his novel Les Misérables from 1862, Victor Hugo deviates from the storyline. The escape of Jean Valjean and Marius Pontmercy through the Parisian sewer is sufficient reason for the author
to explain the centuries-old network of the city and its intended metabolism with the countryside. What follows is a desperate Hugo who expresses a very delicate balancing act of Paris during the Second Empire.
- Citation
- Vandenput, B. (2019). Victor Hugo’s Paris of Sewers. ‘a Paris... of mire... minus the human form’. The Urban Household of Metabolism, OASE, (104), 32–34. Retrieved from https://oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/104/VictorHugosParisofSewers
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- Burkay Pasin & Gul Kacmaz Erk, Ben Vandenput, Koenraad Danneels, Julia von Mende, Dagmar Pelger & Emily Kelling, Ludo Groen, Nitin Bathla, Andrea Bortolotti, Andrea Aragone & Marco Ranzato, Diana Soeiro, Ciel Grommen, Dieter Leyssen & Maximiliaan Royakkers, Nadia Casabella & Jan Denoo, Riccardo M. Villa en Hans Vandermaelen
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