Miserabili , I

Scritto da Victor Hugo

Narrato da Silvia Cecchini

Questa colossale opera fu pubblicata nel 1862. Considerata uno dei romanzi più importanti del XIX secolo, narra la storia di vari personaggi nell’arco di 20 anni, intrecciando la loro vita alle vicende storiche della Parigi post Restaurazione. Ecco come l’Autore stesso descrive il suo romanzo: “Il libro che il lettore ha sotto gli occhi in questo momento è, da un capo all’altro, nell’insieme e nei particolari, quali che siano le intermittenze, le eccezioni o le debolezze, il cammino dal male al bene, dall’ingiusto al giusto, dal falso al vero, dalla notte al giorno, dall’appetito alla coscienza, dalla putrefazione alla vita, della bestialità al dovere, dall’inferno al cielo, dal nulla a Dio. Il suo punto di partenza è la materia, quello di arrivo l’anima. L’idra al principio, l’angelo alla fine.”

• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: Gli Ascolta Libri
• Data di uscita: 13 nov 2012
• ISBN: 9781509424955

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a French poet and novelist. Born in Besançon, Hugo was the son of a general who served in the Napoleonic army. Raised on the move, Hugo was taken with his family from one outpost to the next, eventually setting with his mother in Paris in 1803. In 1823, he published his first novel, launching a career that would earn him a reputation as a leading figure of French Romanticism. His Gothic novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) was a bestseller throughout Europe, inspiring the French government to restore the legendary cathedral to its former glory. During the reign of King Louis-Philippe, Hugo was elected to the National Assembly of the French Second Republic, where he spoke out against the death penalty and poverty while calling for public education and universal suffrage. Exiled during the rise of Napoleon III, Hugo lived in Guernsey from 1855 to 1870. During this time, he published his literary masterpiece Les Misérables (1862), a historical novel which has been adapted countless times for theater, film, and television. Towards the end of his life, he advocated for republicanism around Europe and across the globe, cementing his reputation as a defender of the people and earning a place at Paris’ Panthéon, where his remains were interred following his death from pneumonia. His final words, written on a note only days before his death, capture the depth of his belief in humanity: “To love is to act.”