author
Walburga Hülk
Walburga Hülk, born in 1953, was Professor of Romance Literature at the University of Siegen until 2019. She previously taught in Freiburg and Gießen and was a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris and the Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France in Valenciennes. In numerous books and articles, she has repeatedly dealt with the 19th century in France and with literature and art in the modern age.
Latest book
Victor Hugo: Man of the Century
Matthes & Seitz Berlin
Walburga Hülk explores the fate and myth of the grand homme Victor Hugo, not only as an intellectual, writer and multi-talented artist but also in terms of his visions and contradictions. She paints a portrait of a man and author caught between freedom and exile, a figure whose story also encapsulates the history of 19th-century France.
