The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo, the thought-provoking tale of a man who is sentenced to death and the emotions he feels over the last 24 hours of his life. The book was written as a plea for capital punishment to be abolished, and Hugo uses it to describe in detail how devastating this type of punishment truly is. The author was very politically active, making frequent speeches in front of the government to beg them to abolish the death penalty, which he was strongly against. He is one of the best-known French authors of all time: his works were incredibly successful, his death was mourned across France, and his portrait was even placed on French bank notes in his legacy.
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French poet, playwright, novelist and politician
Born in Besançon in 1802
Died in Paris in 1885
Notable works:
Hernani (1830), drama
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1832), novel
Les Misérables (1862), novel
Victor Hugo, a poet, novelist, playwright and politician, was an emblematic writer of French Romanticism. Known as the leader of the Romantics
, he also led an active political life, intervening in worthy causes such as the abolition of capital punishment. During the Second Empire, he was exiled to (1851-1870) Jersey, then to Guernsey where he notably wrote Les Misérables.
Following his death in 1885, the Republic organised a huge national funeral for him and he was celebrated by the public as one of the greatest French writers.
Genre: novel
Reference edition: Hugo, V. (2009) The Last Day of a Condemned Man. Trans. Ward,