Search e-Library

ALL Search Options Find in Savitri Index of Proper Nouns CWSA Index CWM Index Feedback
Find in Savitri Index of Proper Nouns CWSA Index CWM Index



APPLY FILTER/S
Filtered by: Show All

Jean Valjean : hero of Victor Hugo’s novel Les Miserables.

2 result/s found for Jean Valjean

Letters on Poetry and Art  >  The Poet and the Poem

... What an Page 111 unimaginative man he must be! And how dull his stories must be and how limited. I wonder whether Victor Hugo had to live in a convicts' prison before he created Jean Valjean. Certainly one has to look at life, but there is no obligation to copy faithfully from life. The man of imagination carries a world in himself and a mere hint or suggestion from life is enough to ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   Letters on Poetry and Art
[exact]

Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo  >  May 1934

... seen or experienced? What an unimaginative man he must be! And how dull his stories must be and how limited. I wonder whether Victor Hugo had to live in a convicts' prison before he invented Jean Valjean. Certainly one has to look at life, but there is no obligation to copy faithfully from life. The man of imagination carries a world in himself and a mere hint or suggestion from life is enough to ...

Nirodbaran   >   Books   >   Other-Works   >   Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo
[exact]