Showing posts with label family of Victor Hugo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family of Victor Hugo. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Court saves Les Mis sequel novels, BBC News, 12/20/08

Via BBC News: Court saves Les Mis sequel novels:

"In 2001, novelist Francois Ceresa published the follow-ups to the acclaimed 19th-Century classic.

But Hugo's family objected to the books - Cosette and the Time of Illusions and Marius or The Fugitive - arguing they were an insult to the original work...

But the court ruled on Friday that Hugo's novel was in the public domain, meaning Ceresa was therefore free to invent a sequel."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_7790000/newsid_7793800/7793803.stm