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Like most Romantic novelists, Victor Hugo scorns laughter and levity. This paper concerning the 1869 novel L'homme qui rit scrutinizes the following paradox: while Hugo considers laughter as an essentially negative phenomenon, a manifestation of either cruelty or suffering, he nevertheless strives to make his readers laugh. Victor Hugo is indeed a humoristic writer, even though his representation of laughter is invariably critical. The character of Ursus, a portrait of the artist as an aging erudite, is emblematic of this contradiction between theory and practice, a contradiction that often stems from Hugo's mock-knowledge of things past and humoristic visions.
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This article examines Montreal's Théâtre du Nouveau Monde's 1964 experimental—if now half-forgotten—production of Klondyke from several points of view. First, as an exploration of "collective creation," although neither the term nor the concept had yet entered theatre practice in Quebec. Secondly, as the fulfillment of director Jean Gascon's desire to create an original and authentic "French-Canadian" work. And lastly, it analyzes the play's contribution to musical theatre.