The price of the difference in The Man who laughs, a historic novel by Victor Hugo

Authors

  • Alceu Ravanello Ferraro UFRGS - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Faculdade de Educação. Programa de Pós- Graduação em Educação. Porto Alegre – RS – Brasil.

Keywords:

History, Legend, Monster, Difference, Equality,

Abstract

This paper discusses the relationship between equality and difference in The Man who Laughs (1869), by Victor Hugo. This historical novel is a study of the English aristocracy at the time of the Glorious Revolution (1688) and its main character is the son of a noble family. His face was mutilated by the comprachicos, and he is stigmatized because of this. The present study highlights the fact that Hugo had already explicitly described, in the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, the conflictive relationship between equality and difference, which can be seen in present days.

Author Biography

Alceu Ravanello Ferraro, UFRGS - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Faculdade de Educação. Programa de Pós- Graduação em Educação. Porto Alegre – RS – Brasil.

Docteur en Sciences Sociales par la  Pontifice Université Gregorienne, Rome, 1969. Professeur à  l’Université Fédérale du Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS (1974-1991), Brésil. Dès 2010, professeur invité au Programme de Pos-Graduation en Éducation dans la même Université. Chercheur 1-A du Conseil National de Développement Scientifique et Technologique (CNPq). Chercheur et auteur sur développent, éducation populaire, scolarisation, analphabétisme, exclusion sociale et scolaire, classe/genre/race... et éducation, libéralisme et éducation, néolibéralisme, politiques publiques.

Published

25/05/2017

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