Books

Hugographies Rêveries de Victor Hugo sur les lettres de l’alphabet (Hermann 2022), co-authored with Pierre Georgel, studies the relationship between texts and drawings in Hugo’s work through the letters of the alphabet. We argue that although drawings and writings differ as media, they concoct the same mental images, ideas, affects,…

Rouge Hugo (Presses du Septentrion, 2014) is the first comprehensive examination of the death penalty and the guillotine in Victor Hugo’s writings and drawings. Here, the object “guillotine” represents the activity of the thinker who questions the death penalty, violence in society, and the limits of justice. At the same…