It translates perfectly Hugo’s obsession to try to connect with his daughter one way or another. I enjoyed very much the engrossing writing, very evocative (in the landscapes as well as the eery spiritism sessions). By the way, this is the 5th book of a series, but I had never the impression I was missing something, even though I started by this one. Plus I had not yet read any book by the famous M.J. So I was attracted and intrigued by Seduction, a semi historical semi fantasy novel centered on him and his daughter.
I love Victor Hugo’s writing, and this poem and the collection where it was published, called Contemplations, were some of my favorite. In it, the great French author conveys his sadness as his dear daughter Léopoldine drown in a boat accident shortly after her wedding. “Demain, dès l’aube, à l’heure où blanchit la campagne, je partirai”….ĭuring my school years, every student in France probably knew that poem of Victor Hugo by heart. This book counts for the following Reading Challenges: Awakening a mystery that spans centuries, this multilayered gothic tale brings a time, a place and a cast of desperate characters brilliantly to life.Via Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours Seduction is a historically evocative and atmospheric tale of suspense with a spellbinding ghost story at its heart, written by one of America's most gifted and imaginative novelists. Neither Jac nor Theo anticipate that the mystery surrounding Victor Hugo will threaten their sanity and put their very lives at stake. Central to his heritage, these are the papers his grandfather died trying to find. But the man who has invited her there, a troubled soul named Theo Gaspard, hopes she'll help him discover something quite different-transcripts of Hugo's lost conversations with someone he called the Shadow of the Sepulcher.
In the hopes of uncovering a secret about the island's mysterious Celtic roots, she arrives on Jersey and is greeted by ghostly Neolithic monuments, medieval castles and hidden caves. Recovering from a great loss, mythologist Jac L'Etoile thinks that throwing herself into work will distract her from her grief. Hugo's transcriptions of these conversations have all been published. In the process, he claimed to have communed with Plato, Galileo, Shakespeare, Dante, Jesus-and even the devil himself. Ten years later, still grieving, Hugo initiated hundreds of's ances from his home on the Isle of Jersey in order to reestablish contact with her. In 1843, novelist Victor Hugo's beloved nineteen-year-old daughter drowned.
A gothic tale about Victor Hugo's long-buried secrets and the power of a love that never dies.
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