Description: This book studies the notion of possibility in Victor Hugo's novels and philosophical prose from his time in exile. An entire aesthetic-not only of dreaming and the image but also of fiction-finds extraordinary legitimacy in its proximity to the possible.
Brief description: Didier Philippot est professeur de litterature francaise a l'universite de Strasbourg. Specialiste du roman et de la nouvelle au XIX siecle, il consacre notamment ses travaux a l'esthetique et a l'ontologie romantiques des marges du reel (l'invisible, le possible, l'imaginaire).