Religion, Society, and Nature! these are the three struggles of man. They constitute at the same time his three needs. He has need of a faith; hence the temple. He must create; hence the city. He must live; hence the plough and the ship. But these three solutions comprise three perpetual conflicts. The mysterious difficulty of life results from all three. Man strives with obstacles under the form of superstition, under the form of prejudice, and under the form of the elements.
Religion, Society, and Nature! these are the three struggles of man. They constitute at the same time his three needs. He has need of a faith; hence the temple. He must create; hence the city. He must live; hence the plough and the ship. But these three solutions comprise three perpetual conflicts. The mysterious difficulty of life results from all three. Man strives with obstacles under the form of superstition, under the form of prejudice, and under the form of the elements.
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Op zijn veertiende zei Victor Hugo (1802-1885) dat hij Chateaubriand, indertijd beschouwd als de grootste Franse schrijver, wilde worden en anders niets. Door zijn enorme oeuvre, lange literaire carrière en de diversiteit van zijn werk loste hij die belofte aan zichzelf in: Hugo domineerde de Franse literatuur bijna de gehele negentiende eeuw. De klokkenluider van de Notre-Dame en Les misérables behoren tot zijn bekendste werken.