The Last Day of a Condemned Man – Victor Hugo

3 Responses to The Last Day of a Condemned Man – Victor Hugo

1. Mr Black says:

   January 3, 2014 at 9:58 am

   Not sure what this pamphlet was supposed to be about? Didn’t really tell a story or make an effective case for abolition of the death sentence. Perhaps it was just one of those early works that survive because the later works of the author become famous?

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2. Mr Orange says:

   January 9, 2014 at 4:36 pm

   This shows that Hugo can’t write anything decent under 500+ pages. Not a good introduction to his books which are usually more entertaining than this essay.

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3. Mr Red says:

   March 17, 2014 at 9:10 pm

   Thin piece of liberal propaganda trying to win readers over to opposition to the death penalty in nineteenth-century France. The fatal flaw, however, is that the story of the condemned man’s crime is in the ‘missing pages’ of the ‘diary’, a real cop-out: Victor Hugo evidently felt that readers would be less sympathetic if the knew the author had committed a crime so horrible that it warranted the death penalty.

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