Hugo set forth the purpose of Les Misérables--帝製 or not

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帝製 or not--Hugo set forth the purpose of Les Misérables in the P

 
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Hugo set forth the purpose of Les Misérables in the Preface:[3]

So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilization, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age—the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of women by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night—are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.

Towards the end of the novel, Hugo explains the work's overarching structure:[4]

The book which the reader has before him at this moment is, from one end to the other, in its entirety and details ... a progress from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsehood to truth, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from corruption to life; from bestiality to duty, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. The starting point: matter, destination: the soul. The hydra at the beginning, the angel at the end.

 
 

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• 現在的人都不會寫這麽有深度的文字了。 -greenoasis- ♀ 給 greenoasis 發送悄悄話 (0 bytes) () 01/19/2019 postreply 21:21:34

• 相對來說，我比較喜歡狄更斯的《雙城記》。 -Porcelana- ♀ 給 Porcelana 發送悄悄話 Porcelana 的博客首頁 (0 bytes) () 01/19/2019 postreply 21:24:31

• ZB! 精神上跪倒在美聯儲麵前的錢的奴隸"喜歡狄更斯的《雙城記》" ? -career- ♂ 給 career 發送悄悄話 (329 bytes) () 01/19/2019 postreply 22:58:25

• vs. 探春's claim "隻會發生在有專製皇帝的地方。" -career- ♂ 給 career 發送悄悄話 (3053 bytes) () 01/19/2019 postreply 21:31:24

• 滿嘴裏跑舌頭的探春沒看過*ANY*有深度的文字 -career- ♂ 給 career 發送悄悄話 (211 bytes) () 01/19/2019 postreply 21:40:24

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