Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné

by Victor Hugo

Overview

Eveillé au milieu de la nuit, un condamné à mort éprouve le besoin d'écrire ses pensées. C'est un homme ordinaire dont on ne connait pas le crime. Il exprime son angoisse, ses espoirs, ses souvenirs du procès et d'événements vécus en prison. Il ne sait pas encore qu'il vit ses dernières heures. Il l'apprend au petit jour. Il note alors, avec les sentiments qu'ils provoquent chez lui, tous les petits événements de son transfert, de son attente de l'heure fatale. Ce pathétique plaidoyer contre la peine de mort est précédé d'une préface en forme de scène de théâtre: dans un salon un groupe de personnages ridicules parlent de la peine de mort et de poésie... avant de passer à table.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782382748411
Publisher:	Culturea
Publication date:	09/15/2022
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.23(d)
Language:	French

About the Author

Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France.

In France, Hugo's literary reputation rests on his poetic and dramatic output. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. In the English-speaking world his best-known works are often the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (sometimes translated into English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame).

Though extremely conservative in his youth, Hugo moved to the political left as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time.

Date of Birth:

February 26, 1802

Date of Death:

May 22, 1885

Place of Birth:

Besançon, France

Place of Death:

Paris, France

Education:

Pension Cordier, Paris, 1815-18