In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert--Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.
Victor Hugo: Les misérables (French language, 1862, J. Hetzel)
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French language
Published 1862 by J. Hetzel.
Subjects
- Ex-convicts
- Orphans
- Fiction
Places
- Paris (France)