The Contemplation and Analysis of Oriental Images in Victor Hugo's Works

Orientalists who were pioneers in making the eastern cultures known contributed greatly to the Orientalism, the world of literature and the art of the eastern people. This phenomenon had a scientific, comparative and academic ring in the 19 and 20th centuries. Pioneer of the school of Romanticism, poet and French writer in the 19th century, Victor Hugo, managed to tease out all the oriental concepts by probing them into the translations and writings of orientalists especially the Iranian poets and writers such as Saa’di, Hafiz and Zoroasterian rituals and included them into his historical and epic poems. The imaginative mind that Hugo employs in depicting the beauty of art and the eastern traditions attracts the modern reader to the thoughts of Ahura Mazdâ just as it did the 19th reader. In this paper, we will try to open up a new horizon in the imaginative world and the analysis of Hugo’s deep thoughts of history, society and humanity, Through showing his influence of Zoroasterian thoughts, eastern art and culture and the poets and creators of literary masterpieces in Persian language.