“All Armenians know the name Victor Hugo thanks to Les Misérables— a delectable book that every last one of our peasants and the humblest of our village schoolteachers have read and reread and that has become like a second gospel for our people.”
- Arshag Chobanian (1902)
[The first Armenian translation of Les Misérables created a] "Hugolatria that bordered on mania," taking hold of many Armenian readers and writers and leading them to treat Hugo like a kind of oracle."
- Not the original person who said the quote, but I got it from the Manoukian's 2022 paper
not rlly sure how tumblr works but heres knife wife and the babygirl antichrist
Maybe a little Titanic au(?)I’ve finally finished it.
Several years ago, mayroong Filipino cover ng "Do You Hear the People Sing?" sa YouTube titled "Nadirinig Mo Ba'ng Madla?" na ngayon ay deleted na dahil deleted na rin ang mismong channel. Iba ito sa "Di N'yo Ba Naririnig?" translation na mas kilala bilang isang protest song. Gumamit ng mga clips mula sa Heneral Luna ang video ng "Nadirinig Mo Ba'ng Madla?" Gusto kong malaman kung may nakapag-archive ba nito, o kung active pa sa social media ang nag-cover nito, o kung may nakapag-transcribe man lang ng kumpletong lyrics. Ito ang lyrics ng chorus: Nadirinig mo ba'ng madla? Awit ng bayang nasadlak Tumatanggi sa panlulupig At muling pagkabihag 'Pag ang alab ng dibdib Tumaginting nang dalisay Siyang hudyat ng isang Bagong bukang-liwayway
Unfortunately, hindi ko tanda ang lyrics ng unang verse. Pero tanda ko ang second verse: Ikaw ba'y namamanata Sa bandila't bayan mo? At babangon sa digmaan Sa hilahil at unos? Sa'ting dugo't pawis Ang bayan ay matutubos! May kaunting pag-sample ng Lupang Hinirang bago ang huling chorus na may ibang lyrics. Hindi ko tanda ang kabuuan ng huling chorus; naaalala ko lang ay "Nadirnig mo ba'ng madla/Awit ng bagong pag-asa" sa umpisa at "Pagkasikat ng araw/Tayo'y malaya na!" sa dulo. Sa ngayon, tinuturing kong lost media ang kantang ito.
“He might be your brother.”
“He is.”
ExR + touches
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Bonus:
First Grantaire in a while.
The Three Grantaires
A little illustration I drew for my fic Drink to Forget.
I don't really wanna spoil it in regards to why there are three of them but I will say that the protagonist Grantaire is the one on the right, showing off his lovely little sutures. Hopefully for those who haven't read yet maybe this will entice a little I guess.
An all too short TV commercial with rare footage of the first Canadian cast of Les Mis, 1989.
“Give to this dog son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be Javert.”
I think a lot about the folkloric story that Victor Hugo describes (or invents) in Les Mis, that uses dogs/wolves as a metaphor for that way that Inspector Javert betrays his own social class. It feels very fairytale-like, so here’s a Lotte-Reiniger style adaptation. Many thoughts, many emotions. I may animate this eventually. (And thanks to @valvertweek for the motivation!)
nel || 19 || they/them || aroace || every once in a while I scream about something other than Les Miserables || if you know me irl no you don’t
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