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The Last Day of a Condemned Man
Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné
Victor Hugo
Romanticism
1829
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The Last Day of a Condemned Man
Original title: Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné (Français)
Victor Hugo
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The story
A man awaits the guillotine and writes. Hugo withholds the crime and the name so that only one question remains: may the state kill?
About the author
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) turned the novel into a tribune: literature as moral and political intervention.
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