In the words of the famous French philosopher Sartre, Hugo is "one of the few writers who are really popular with the people, perhaps the only one" in France.
During his long creative career, Hugo created a lot of poems, plays and novels.
His works describe the miserable life of working people, expose and criticize the evils of capitalist society, oppose the autocratic rule of nobles and churches, praise the fighting spirit of the people, and are full of patriotic passion, which has had a great influence in France and the world, and is still a precious legacy of the world literary world.
Hugo kept pace with the times all his life. He is an important writer in the history of French literature, the leader of the active romantic literary movement in the early19th century, and an outstanding bourgeois democratic writer in the history of French literature.
Hugo, who worshipped chateaubriand, an early French romantic writer, experienced almost all the major events in France in the19th century. Throughout his life, the leading idea of his activities and creation is humanitarianism, opposing violence and controlling evil with love.
Hugo is a poet full of fighting spirit. He once sounded the horn of the struggle against imperialism, and praised the light with magnificent and emotional poems such as "Collection of Penalties" and "The Theory of Time".
Hugo once bought two cannons with his own works and the reward of reading poems, and donated them to the country for use in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, which showed Hugo's lofty patriotic spirit.
Hugo inherited the progressive ideological tradition since the French bourgeois revolution, and was an outstanding democratic fighter and an outstanding representative of bourgeois democracy.
Romain rolland once praised Hugo: "Among all the great men in the literary and art circles, Hugo is the only great man who lives in the hearts of the French people."