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“Those who accuse Hugo of royalism, the revolutionaries, think they know the truth best. However, not all realism is revolutionary (...) If we confine ourselves to the principles set by the lovers of art for art's sake and the realists who are fugitives from reality, we will be placing realism in the guilty chair (...) This is why today's writers who experience socialism, whose eyes have been opened by history and scientific socialist theory, believe that art He opposes those who advocate the idea of art for its own sake, even if they are republicans, and feels devoted to monarchists such as Victor Hugo (...)
Louis Aragon