Victor Hugo
Paperback | Pages: 109 pages Rating: 4.01 | 13762 Users | 934 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné |
| ISBN: | 1843910071 (ISBN13: 9781843910077) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | France |
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Deeply shocking in its time, The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a profound and moving tale and a vital work of social commentary. A man vilified by society and condemned to death for his crime wakes every morning knowing that this day might be his last. With the hope for release his only comfort, he spends his hours recounting his life and the time before his imprisonment. But as the hours pass, he knows that he is powerless to change his fate. He must follow the path so many have trod before him—the path that leads to the guillotine.List Based On Books The Last Day of a Condemned Man
| Title | : | The Last Day of a Condemned Man |
| Author | : | Victor Hugo |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 109 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 2002 by Hesperus Press (first published 1829) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Cultural. France. European Literature. French Literature |
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Ratings: 4.01 From 13762 Users | 934 ReviewsAssessment Based On Books The Last Day of a Condemned Man
4,5*sYeah, I love this book.
This book was so beautiful and poignant that I actually had to stop at certain lines and catch my breath. The protagonist is so desperate to cling on to life, and yet so certain that it will be taken from him - it's heartbreaking. Yet again, Hugo creates an amazing depth of character and you can't help but empathise with this man. Highly recommend it!
The title very much summarises what the book is about whilst simultaneously making it quite hard to ignore the context of the novel, and perhaps even more so of our own present context where the death penalty has mostly been abolished. The perspective Victor Hugo chose to approach such a once taboo topic as the abolition of the death penalty, is what I found to be the most remarkable aspect of this novel. The narrative is personal and intrusive and yet it remains a faceless tragedy, which can
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No-one rails against societys injustices quite like Victor Hugo. This collection includes four pieces that fall somewhere along the continuum between fiction and reportage. Each is based to a greater or lesser extent on real events, but in each case Hugo has embroidered and excluded for effect, as is only reasonable. The first and most powerful piece is the most heavily fictionalised: The Last Day of a Condemned Man. This man isnt a specific case, rather a synthesis or symbol of the kind Hugo is
About a month ago I heard again the OTR (old time radio) version of Victor Hugo's The Last Day of a Condemned Man {The Weird Circle -12/10/1944}, and while it was fairly fresh in my mind I wanted to read this novelette. I enjoy reading books that I have either heard on the radio or seen the movie, and The Weird Circle is full of classic stories. Before going into the differences in the director's interpretation of the writer's work, I wanted to comment of Hugo's 1832 Preface to his story which
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