Les Misérables (French Edition) by Victor Hugo

Les Misérables (French Edition)

Victor Hugo
363 pages
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Apr 2022
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Décrivant la vie des miséreux, "Les Misérables" est un roman qui a donné de nombreuses adaptations au cinéma. Éditée en 1862, cette réalisation de Victor Hugo est à la fois un roman historique, social et philosophique.

Portant auparavant le titre « Les Misères », l'œuvre n'a eu que du succès auprès du grand public. Par ailleurs, l'auteur a déjà affirmé que sa conviction était que le livre soit un des principaux sommets ou bien qu'il soit le principal de son œuvre. Composé de cinq parties, le roman dispose de récits organisés autour de Jean Valjean. Ainsi, autour de ce personnage principal apparaît les autres destinées des autres personnages misérables tels que Fantine, Marius et Gavroche.

Par ailleurs, il s'agit là du titre le plus célèbre et le plus lu de l'auteur. Aussi, les personnages du récit sont devenus des personnages très connus par chaque lycéen. L'ouvrage mérite son appellation « Livre unique » par rapport aux autres chefs-d'œuvre parus pendant ce siècle. En effet, c'est la première fois qu'on trouve un livre, plus précisément un drame dont le personnage principal est l'infini et le second, l'Homme.

La préface de l'œuvre dégage une certaine pensée sociale mais aussi une mission d'ordre morale et politique. Par ailleurs, le roman en lui-même est emblématique parmi les nombreuses œuvres littéraires françaises. Il décrit dans presque tous ces chapitres la vie des miséreux dans divers pays, surtout à Paris et la France provinciale au XIXe siècle. En effet, dans l'ouvrage, l'auteur s'attache plus particulièrement au destin de Jean Valjean. À travers ce roman, on peut aussi retrouver les idéaux du romantisme et de l'auteur pour ce qui est de la nature humaine.

Divisé en 5 livres, on suivra les destins de Fantine, Cosette, Marius, Jean Valjean, Gavroche et tant d'autres encore, aujourd'hui des personnages légendaires. Read more Continue reading Read less FROM AUDIOFILE
The classic story of kindness, love, honor and poverty is not as depressing as some of Hugo's other works. Its historical sweep, during the brewing of the French Revolution, is large, and its emotional sweep even larger. British actor Michael York throws his considerable histrionic skills into the task--each character is carefully articulated, both by tone and pacing. Having played classic French characters before--notably D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers and its sequel--York knows how to manipulate scene and feeling in this type of ambiance, and he performs effortlessly and superbly. D.W. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an alternate kindleedition edition. FROM LIBRARY JOURNAL
Geoffrey Rush, this edition offers a quality hardcover at a reasonable price.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate kindleedition edition. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Né en 1802, Victor Hugo est l'auteur emblématique du Romantisme français. C'est avec Cromwell, publié en 1827, qu'il expose sa vision de la littérature débarrassée des règles contraignantes de la tragédie. C'est un véritable succès, qui va se transformer en " bataille" lors de la représentation de sa pièce Hernani, en 1830, où le modernisme prend la figure de Victor Hugo. Son positionnement politique, tout aussi moderne, l'entraîne à s'exiler pendant 20 ans, suite au coup d'état du 2 décembre 1851 qui proclame le Second Empire. Auteur de poésies, romans, pièces de thétre, Victor Hugo est mort en 1885 et son corps repose au Panthéon. --This text refers to an alternate kindleedition edition. FROM THE BACK COVER
‘A humanist masterpiece’ Guardian ‘Still manages to grip the reader with its epic-narrative sweep and all-embracing humanitarianism’ Douglas Kennedy, Sunday Times

‘A sprawling, rumbustious novel’ Daily Mail



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From the Introduction
by Peter Washington

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Victor Hugo might be regarded as the Mr Toad of French literature: vain, arrogrant, pompous, selfish, cold and stingy; a windbag, a humbug and a fraud, absurdly puffed up with the immensity of his own greatness. But unlike Mr Toad, he was also an astute and energetic promoter of hisown image as a Great Man. The process began early. Writing in Hugo's lifetime, Virginie Ancelot recalls the reception the young poet received in literary drawing-rooms when he arrived to read his latest ode.

"...There was a few moments' silence; then someone rose and approached him with visible emotion, took his hand and raised their eyes to heaven.

The multitude listened.

A single word was heard, to the great surprise of the uninitiated. And this word, which echoed in every corner of the salon, was:

'Cathedral!'

Then the orator returned to his place; another rose and cried out:

'Ogive!'

A third looked round him and ventured:

'Egyptian Pyramid!'

The assembly applauded, and then it was lost in profound reflection."

To the Anglo-Saxon mind - and, it should be said, to many Frenchmen - this is Parisian literary life at its worst: the posturing, the pretension, the self-regard, masquerading under the name of art. Yet Hugo is the man who wrote a handful of the most exquisite lyrics - 'Victor Hugo, helas!'said Gide when someone asked him to name the finest French poet - and at least one novel judged to be supreme. In his person, he sums up all that is most monsterous in writerly vanity; in his best work he transcended his failings. How did he do it? How did a monster come to write the masterpiece that is Les Miserables?

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In an early essay on Scott, Hugo prophesies that

"After the picturesque but prosaic novel of Walter Scott, there will still be another novel to create ... It is the novel which is at once drama and epic, picturesque and poetic, real and ieal, true and great, the novel which will enshrine Walter Scott in Homer."

These words were written in 1823, just after the publication of his own first novel, Han d'Isl
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Published 2022
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