Registration
Admission for this tour is $35. Members receive exclusive discounts on our programs and courses. Not a member? Learn more.
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This program is for those 18 and older.
Registration opens for Delancey Society members on Friday, March 13, for Rosenbach members on Friday, March 20, and for the general public on Friday, March 27.
Description
Few writers of the 19th century fused literature, religion, and politics quite as poetically as Victor Hugo. He's best known as the writer of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Misérables, but Victor Hugo was also a poet, a playwright, and a painter who was squarely in the Romantic period but verged on surrealism. His life story reads as a novel, and his philanthropic and philandering tendencies were often at odds. He was constantly searching for a higher power, and sometimes he was the higher power. Hugo was many things, as an admirer once said, "He is divine, he is infernal, he is wise, he is foolish, he is Pope, he is king, he is man, woman, painter, poet, sculptor. He is everything." Join us to look at the Rosenbach's Hugo collection and related literary forces including Shakespeare, Dickens, and Flaubert.
Sponsors
“What a Man is Hugo!” Victor Hugo and His Search for the Literary Divine Behind the Bookcase program is kindly sponsored by Lois and Larry Deckelbaum and Lenore H. Steiner and Perry A. Lerner.
Behind the Bookcase: Hands-on Tours at The Rosenbach
Behind the Bookcase: Hands-on Tours offer unparalleled access to see, and even touch, rare and important items not usually on view to the public. Each program is dedicated to a different author, theme, or topic and grants a truly hands-on experience with materials in The Rosenbach’s inspiring collection.
See all upcoming tours here. Space is limited and advance registration is strongly recommended.