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Reading John Chambers: Victor Hugo's Conversations with the Spirit World

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Victor Hugo spent much of his Isle of Jersey exile summoning the spirits of Galileo, Shakespeare, Plato, and Rousseau. The budding parapsychologist also saw fit to transcribe his séances. But of Hugo's many table-tapping conversations, perhaps the most telling was the one in which Jesus Christ suggested that the writer ditch Christianity, start his own religion, and appoint himself as prophet. You'll have to ask Victor Hugo's Conversations with the Spirit World author John Chambers about Jesus' thoughts on Les Misérables.

 

– John Hood

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