VICTOR HUGO'S CONVERSATIONS WITH THE
SPIRIT WORLD: A LITERARY GENIUS'S
HIDDEN LIFE
"...This intriguing corner of the
great novelist's life is
exceptionally well documented in
Victor Hugo's Conversations with the
Spirit World, by John
Chambers. Chambers, the first person
to translate the séance transcripts
into English (in an
earlier edition of this book),
does a fine job of evoking the
atmosphere of the exiles' home away
from home, their bitter homesickness
and burgeoning fascination with the
occult. His book is unusually well
written for a study of this kind,
laced with keen character sketches
and absorbing sidelights on William
Blake,
James Merrill, and Kabbalah. He
presents the facts without undue
speculation and lets his readers
draw their own conclusions....Victor
Hugo's Conversations with the Spirit
World is a superb contribution
to literary history and to the study
of the paranormal. I recommend it
highly." - Michael Prescott,
April 28, 2008. For full text,
click here: <http://michaelprescott.typepad.com/michael_prescotts_blog/2008/04/things-to-do-on.html>
New age
collections will find it
an intriguing addition.,
"...Hugo comes across as a complex man - as one would expect - egotistical and selfish, overbearing towards his family, yet sensitive and passionate on occasion. He was also capable of surprising insights, musing on time running backwards, or prefiguring David Bohm's holographic universe. While not convinced that the séances were "the greatest... adventure into the supernatural that has ever been recorded", I would agree that this is a fascinating story, and it is told in an engaging way." - Tom Ruffles, NTHPOSITION Online Magazine, March 2008. For full text, click here: <http://www.nthposition.com/victorhugosconversations.php> |