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" Farewell hope, roses farewell, farewell
nature and wind;
all n ' is more to me.
And Mary, my poor girl!
Who love you now?
My heart bleeds all my rage ... "
Who speaks?" A man like all others, in expectation of death. Out in the pale light of morning, the guillotine casts its shadow on the pavement. In some hours, this man will be executed. His crime? He said nothing. Time is short. On paper he has left, he still casts his fears and anxieties, remembers the happiness away ... Hope it? Keep the strength to stand.
"What I write may one day be useful to others, it stops the judge ready to judge, it saves unfortunate innocent or guilty, the agony with which I am condemned. .. "
Comment: What thoughts can therefore live the spirit of a man condemned to death? This is a question which attempts to answer Victor Hugo in this short novel. With his pen legendary leader of the Romantic movement lends his voice to a future victim of the guillotine . Innocent or guilty, whatever, this supreme award which Hugo has seen repeatedly, is unacceptable. Real plea against capital punishment, this novel, first published in 1829, accused the justice system unfair and a failed religion. At the time, Victor Hugo defends his controversial novel in portraying him as an "argument general and permanent for all defendants " . To learn more, take a look at this Wikipedia .
Although it addresses a question fondammentale, this novel does not mark me more than that: I was expecting a more powerful text. I was disappointed because I did not find the usual verve the author. There are still a few notable passages punctuated jargon words then, but nothing that suggests to my mind, a major text. Some criticize the novel not to mention the causes of the narrator's conviction but personally I was not disturbed. After all, they are not crimes of which he is talking about but the death penalty. For the curious, you can always make your own mind by reading the full version in PDF . Note that this PDF version proposed by ebooksgratuits.org includes an interesting foreword by Victor Hugo.
Although it addresses a question fondammentale, this novel does not mark me more than that: I was expecting a more powerful text. I was disappointed because I did not find the usual verve the author. There are still a few notable passages punctuated jargon words then, but nothing that suggests to my mind, a major text. Some criticize the novel not to mention the causes of the narrator's conviction but personally I was not disturbed. After all, they are not crimes of which he is talking about but the death penalty. For the curious, you can always make your own mind by reading the full version in PDF . Note that this PDF version proposed by ebooksgratuits.org includes an interesting foreword by Victor Hugo.
Excerpts: "Sentenced to death!
Well, why not? Men, I remember having read in I do not know what book where there was only that good men are all condemned to death with reprieve undefined. Qu'ya so he changed me? "P.16
" They m'aprennent talking slang to rouscailler horning as they say. C'est toute une langue entée sur la langue générale comme une espèce de d'excroissance hideuse, comme une verrue. Sometimes a singular energy, a picturesque scary: there's resin in the Trimar (Blood on the path), the widow (being hanged), as if the rope of the gallows was the widow of all hanged. The head of a thief has two names: the Sorbonne when she meditates, thinks and advises the crime of cum when the hangman cut. Sometimes the spirit of vaudeville: a cashmere wicker (a hood rag), the liar (the language), and then everywhere at every moment, strange words, mysterious, ugly and sordid, coming from who knows where: the jail (the executioner), the cone (death), the closet (the place of execution). "p.18-19
" I feel my heart full of rage and bitterness. I think the pocket gall burst. Death makes wicked. "P.62
Author: Victor Hugo
Editions: Librio
Preface: Victor Hugo
date: 1995
Number of pages: 97 per
Cover: Detail of an illustration of Felix Vallotton. Paper Leonardo Selva-Tapabor
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