Satan and his daughter, the angel Liberty : selected verses from La Fin de Satan / Victor Hugo ; illustrations by Odilon Redon ; translation by R.G. Skinner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885, author.

Contributor:

Redon, Odilon, 1840-1916, illustrator.

Skinner, R. G. (Richard G.), translator.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885--Translations into English.

Hugo, Victor.

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885.

Genre:

Translations.

Physical Description:

xxx, 86 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Swan Isle Press, 2019.

Summary:

"Victor Hugo spent years in political exile off the coast of Normandy. While there, he produced his masterpiece, Les Miserables--but that wasn't all: he also wrote a book-length poem, La Fin de Satan, left unfinished and not published until after his death. Satan and his Daughter, the Angel Liberty, drawn from this larger poem, tells the story of Satan and his daughter, the angel created by God from a feather left behind following his banishment. Hugo details Satan's fall, and through a despairing soliloquy, reveals him intent on revenge, yet desiring God's forgiveness. The angel Liberty, meanwhile, is presented by Hugo as the embodiment of good, working to convince her father to return to Heaven. This new translation by Richard Skinner presents Hugo's verse in his preferred style, and is accompanied by illustrations by the Symbolist artist Odilon Redon. No adventurous reader will want to miss this beautiful mingling of the epic and familial, religious and political"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Stella p. 1

Beyond The Earth p. 5

Beyond the Earth I And Then There Was Night p. 7

Beyond the Earth II Satan's Feather p. 19

Beyond the Earth III I Satan in the Night p. 23

I, II: In the Air ♦ Song of the Birds p. 26

III-XVI p. 37

II The Angel Liberty p. 61

I, II, VII, VIII

Denouement p. 83.

Notes:

"Translation is based on Œuvres complète de Victor Hugo, Poésie XI, La Fin de Satan. Dieu. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1911."--title page verso

Translated from the French.

Contains:

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885. Fin de Satan.

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885. Dieu.

ISBN:

9780997228731

0997228733

OCLC:

1048659471