Олимпио, или жизнь Виктора Гюго

“Indeed, it is in vain for men passionately in love to lift their beloved woman to a peak inaccessible to her - in this position, she may feel dizzy and she will fall.”

"Olympio, or the Life of Victor Hugo" (1954) is one of the best books about Hugo, and it belongs to the pen of André Maurois, a famous French writer of the 20th century, author of remarkable lyrical prose, but above all, a legislator in the genre of "romanized biography".

Victor Hugo is the greatest of the greats. One of the most famous writers of world literature, the sun of French poetry, the ruler of the thoughts of several generations of European intelligentsia, the greatest prose writer of the 19th century.
A man of great creative energy and personal charm. His fate, full of sharp turns, is full of dramatic pages: passionate and vivid love stories, eternal confrontation with those in power, the struggle for justice, exile and farewell to beloved France, a triumphant return to his homeland, the loss of his beloved children.
What was Hugo like? - not in legends, embellished memoirs and literary anecdotes, but in reality? This is told by André Maurois in the biographical novel Olympio, or the Life of Victor Hugo. About all this and not only in the book Olympio, or the life of Victor Hugo