La presencia del lector en la narrativa de Victor Hugo (1823-1834)

Abstract

The reader is very present in Victor Hugo’s novels published during the period 1823-1834 thanks to different textual stra­tegies. So there is a rich dialogue between him and the author. Both of them are considered in this article as textual constructions instead of empiric beings. The analysis shows that the relationship author-reader is clearly asymmetric as it is only the author who has got the control of the stories and its interpretation. That is why he decides to instruct the reader, whose reading skills are poor, by helping him to understand and by teaching him anything that could be necessary to appreciate the novel. However, this author proposes a familiar way of care to the reader inviting him to experience amusement through little enigmas or showing complicity.