Name: The Last Day of a Condemned Man
Author: Victor Hugo

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FL-0057E.V.

HUGO, Victor

The Last Day of a Condemned Man

1829

1. Fiction

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Victor Hugo The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829) Overview Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné is a short book with a single, ruthlessly held idea: give the reader six weeks and then one day inside the head of a man who is going to be guillotined, refuse to tell them his name, his crime, his victim or his town, and let the machinery of the state do the rest of the argument. It is written as a journal in forty-six “papers,” beginning in a Bicêtre dungeon five weeks after…

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Accession:FL-0057

Published:1829

Language:en

Shelved under:Fiction

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