Title : The Last Day of a Condemned Man - Victor Hugo - Book
Summary :
Edition enriched by Roger Borderie including a preface and a file on the novel. Victor Hugo was twenty-six years old when he wrote, in two and a half months, The Last Day of a Condemned Man, a novel that undoubtedly constitutes the most vehement indictment ever made against the death penalty. We will not know who the Condemned Man is, we will know nothing of the crime he committed. For the author's purpose is not to enter into a debate but to expose the horror and absurdity of the situation in which any man finds himself whose neck is going to be slit in a few hours. This novel - with its often strangely modern overtones - has such a power of suggestion that the reader ends up identifying with the narrator, whose anguish and vain hopes he shares in turn. Until the very last lines of the book, Victor Hugo's genius makes us participate in a frightened anticipation: that of the grating sound of the blade rushing into the rails of the guillotine. Anyone who has read this book will never forget this striking lesson in writing and humanity.
- EAN: 9782070413102
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