http://aaeblog.com/2008/12/07/hugo-on-ressentiment/ "Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy. Fri, 25 May 2012 12:50:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://aaeblog.com/2008/12/07/hugo-on-ressentiment/comment-page-1/#comment-334509 Administrator Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:22:09 +0000 http://praxeology.net/blog/2008/12/07/hugo-on-ressentiment/#comment-334509 I suppose I should add that there's a character in <i>Les Misérables</i> -- I forget his name (Grantaire?) but he's the one that's clearly based on Hugo's "friend" Sainte-Beuve -- whose <i>ressentiment</i>-laced love-hate relationship toward Enjolras (Rand's favourite Hugo character) is most likely the inspiration for Keating's similarly <i>ressentiment</i>-laced love-hate relationship toward Roark. And there's also the play <i>Chantecler</i> by Rostand, another Rand fave .... I suppose I should add that there’s a character in Les Misérables — I forget his name (Grantaire?) but he’s the one that’s clearly based on Hugo’s “friend” Sainte-Beuve — whose ressentiment-laced love-hate relationship toward Enjolras (Rand’s favourite Hugo character) is most likely the inspiration for Keating’s similarly ressentiment-laced love-hate relationship toward Roark. And there’s also the play Chantecler by Rostand, another Rand fave ….

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