Le Dernier Jour d’un Condamné

Published in 1829, it is a thesis novel by Victor Hugo (Audio Book)

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The Last Day of a Convict is a thesis novel by Victor Hugo published in 1829

Summary :

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 which undoubtedly constitutes the most vehement indictment ever pronounced against the death penalty.

We will not know who the Condemned Person is, we will know nothing of the crime he committed. Because the author's purpose is not to enter into a debate but to exhibit the horror and absurdity of the situation in which any man finds himself whose neck is cut in a few hours.

This novel - often with 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 last lines of the book, the genius of Victor Hugo makes us participate in a waiting

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