No doubt the story would be reframed by Hollywood by making Gilliatte a noble man of colour who is cheated of his hoped for marriage to Deruchette by the machinations of the white patriarchal Vicar exercising his white privilege to snatch her away in place of story of the self sacrifice of Gilliatte in the original.
Good to read another dip into the literature of the past by Doyle.
Jeremy Bray
1 year ago
No doubt the story would be reframed by Hollywood by making Gilliatte a noble man of colour who is cheated of his hoped for marriage to Deruchette by the machinations of the white patriarchal Vicar exercising his white privilege to snatch her away in place of story of the self sacrifice of Gilliatte in the original.
Good to read another dip into the literature of the past by Doyle.
Jimmy Snooks
1 year ago
Lovely article by Andrew Doyle.
Hugo’s Hautville House abode in St Peter Port is definitely worth a visit. Owned and maintained by the City of Paris, it has recently been lovingly restored and is pretty much as he left it. During the 15 or so years of his exile in Guernsey, and with the help of several local (and even imported) craftsmen, Hugo modelled the whole 3 or 4-storey house to reflect the far reaches of his interests and imagination. Truly something to behold.
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Jimmy Snooks
1 year ago
Lovely article by Andrew Doyle.
Hugo’s Hautville House abode in St Peter Port is definitely worth a visit. Owned and maintained by the City of Paris, it has recently been lovingly restored and is pretty much as he left it. During the 15 or so years of his exile in Guernsey, and with the help of several local (and even imported) craftsmen, Hugo modelled the whole 3 or 4-storey house to reflect the far reaches of his interests and imagination. Truly something to behold.
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Frederick Hastings
1 year ago
But don’t let the overarching theme minimize the unrequited love story that ends on those rocks and ends the story. And don’t let “Toilers” diminish in any way Hugo’s other less read but nonetheless masterworks “The Man Who Laughs” and “Ninety-Six”.
Frederick Hastings
1 year ago
But don’t let the overarching theme minimize the unrequited love story that ends on those rocks and ends the story. And don’t let “Toilers” diminish in any way Hugo’s other less read but nonetheless masterworks “The Man Who Laughs” and “Ninety-Six”.
Steve Murray
1 year ago
Having visited Guernsey twice in recent years, the “island” effect, which as Doyle tells us was described superbly by DH Lawrence, is real and must have had a significant effect on Hugo’s writing.
In more recent times, anyone walking along the byways can’t fail to come across numerous abandoned houses with grounds, left to the ravages of nature. These were the dwellings of German officers during the occupation of WW2. That they have been left in this state and not repurposed (i think there’s a moratorium on doing so) tells us something significant about the mindset of those islanders too. These inland dwellings are, of course, in addition to the various fortifications and gun emplacements along the coast built largely with slave labour, plus the horrifying underground hospital dug into bare rock.
If only Hugo had been around in those times, to elicit through his use of language the fundamentals of such tyranny.
Steve Murray
1 year ago
Having visited Guernsey twice in recent years, the “island” effect, which as Doyle tells us was described superbly by DH Lawrence, is real and must have had a significant effect on Hugo’s writing.
In more recent times, anyone walking along the byways can’t fail to come across numerous abandoned houses with grounds, left to the ravages of nature. These were the dwellings of German officers during the occupation of WW2. That they have been left in this state and not repurposed (i think there’s a moratorium on doing so) tells us something significant about the mindset of those islanders too. These inland dwellings are, of course, in addition to the various fortifications and gun emplacements along the coast built largely with slave labour, plus the horrifying underground hospital dug into bare rock.
If only Hugo had been around in those times, to elicit through his use of language the fundamentals of such tyranny.
Chris Milburn
1 year ago
I believe there needs to be a small edit in one of the first paragraphs here. Ships “founder”, not “flounder”.
I feel odd making a snippy little correction like this to a great article by one of my favourite authors and commentators. But as a boy who grew up by the sea in Cape Breton, and who read every shipwreck and sea adventure book in our local library (as I write this I am looking at my bedside table at another shipwreck book), I know my flounderings from my founderings.
Chris Milburn
1 year ago
I believe there needs to be a small edit in one of the first paragraphs here. Ships “founder”, not “flounder”.
I feel odd making a snippy little correction like this to a great article by one of my favourite authors and commentators. But as a boy who grew up by the sea in Cape Breton, and who read every shipwreck and sea adventure book in our local library (as I write this I am looking at my bedside table at another shipwreck book), I know my flounderings from my founderings.
No doubt the story would be reframed by Hollywood by making Gilliatte a noble man of colour who is cheated of his hoped for marriage to Deruchette by the machinations of the white patriarchal Vicar exercising his white privilege to snatch her away in place of story of the self sacrifice of Gilliatte in the original.
Good to read another dip into the literature of the past by Doyle.
No doubt the story would be reframed by Hollywood by making Gilliatte a noble man of colour who is cheated of his hoped for marriage to Deruchette by the machinations of the white patriarchal Vicar exercising his white privilege to snatch her away in place of story of the self sacrifice of Gilliatte in the original.
Good to read another dip into the literature of the past by Doyle.
Lovely article by Andrew Doyle.
Hugo’s Hautville House abode in St Peter Port is definitely worth a visit. Owned and maintained by the City of Paris, it has recently been lovingly restored and is pretty much as he left it. During the 15 or so years of his exile in Guernsey, and with the help of several local (and even imported) craftsmen, Hugo modelled the whole 3 or 4-storey house to reflect the far reaches of his interests and imagination. Truly something to behold.
Lovely article by Andrew Doyle.
Hugo’s Hautville House abode in St Peter Port is definitely worth a visit. Owned and maintained by the City of Paris, it has recently been lovingly restored and is pretty much as he left it. During the 15 or so years of his exile in Guernsey, and with the help of several local (and even imported) craftsmen, Hugo modelled the whole 3 or 4-storey house to reflect the far reaches of his interests and imagination. Truly something to behold.
But don’t let the overarching theme minimize the unrequited love story that ends on those rocks and ends the story. And don’t let “Toilers” diminish in any way Hugo’s other less read but nonetheless masterworks “The Man Who Laughs” and “Ninety-Six”.
But don’t let the overarching theme minimize the unrequited love story that ends on those rocks and ends the story. And don’t let “Toilers” diminish in any way Hugo’s other less read but nonetheless masterworks “The Man Who Laughs” and “Ninety-Six”.
Having visited Guernsey twice in recent years, the “island” effect, which as Doyle tells us was described superbly by DH Lawrence, is real and must have had a significant effect on Hugo’s writing.
In more recent times, anyone walking along the byways can’t fail to come across numerous abandoned houses with grounds, left to the ravages of nature. These were the dwellings of German officers during the occupation of WW2. That they have been left in this state and not repurposed (i think there’s a moratorium on doing so) tells us something significant about the mindset of those islanders too. These inland dwellings are, of course, in addition to the various fortifications and gun emplacements along the coast built largely with slave labour, plus the horrifying underground hospital dug into bare rock.
If only Hugo had been around in those times, to elicit through his use of language the fundamentals of such tyranny.
Having visited Guernsey twice in recent years, the “island” effect, which as Doyle tells us was described superbly by DH Lawrence, is real and must have had a significant effect on Hugo’s writing.
In more recent times, anyone walking along the byways can’t fail to come across numerous abandoned houses with grounds, left to the ravages of nature. These were the dwellings of German officers during the occupation of WW2. That they have been left in this state and not repurposed (i think there’s a moratorium on doing so) tells us something significant about the mindset of those islanders too. These inland dwellings are, of course, in addition to the various fortifications and gun emplacements along the coast built largely with slave labour, plus the horrifying underground hospital dug into bare rock.
If only Hugo had been around in those times, to elicit through his use of language the fundamentals of such tyranny.
I believe there needs to be a small edit in one of the first paragraphs here. Ships “founder”, not “flounder”.
I feel odd making a snippy little correction like this to a great article by one of my favourite authors and commentators. But as a boy who grew up by the sea in Cape Breton, and who read every shipwreck and sea adventure book in our local library (as I write this I am looking at my bedside table at another shipwreck book), I know my flounderings from my founderings.
I believe there needs to be a small edit in one of the first paragraphs here. Ships “founder”, not “flounder”.
I feel odd making a snippy little correction like this to a great article by one of my favourite authors and commentators. But as a boy who grew up by the sea in Cape Breton, and who read every shipwreck and sea adventure book in our local library (as I write this I am looking at my bedside table at another shipwreck book), I know my flounderings from my founderings.