Han d’Islande - Victor Hugo

[Han of Iceland Ebook Reader]Han from Iceland is a youth novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1823.Summary :The first novel of the "sublime child": Hugo was barely more than twenty years old when he completed it, and Han of Iceland pleads the thesis of the alliance of the king, the youth and the people in the face of the absolutism of evil which is primarily due to the fact that people die of hunger at the gates of the palaces.The action takes place in the 17th century in a Scandinavian kingdom terrorized by a bestial being, Han, who lives alone with a bear and only feeds on human blood.
A monster, a popular revolt, thwarted loves which evoke those of Hugo and Adèle Foucher, and a prison where an innocent minister is locked up who will be freed by a Dürer-style knight.
Han is both Frankenstein and the prefiguration of Quasimodo, and the novel bears witness to the fascination that Nordic cultures, who live on blood and night but who also invented freedom, had on early romanticism.(Audio book)