by Victor Hugo · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253050063
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«Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné» is the novel by Victor Hugo published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (284 pages, in French).
A diary-format account of a condemned man who, while awaiting execution, reviews his life, his memories, and the weight of the sentence; his individual anguish becomes a critique of capital punishment. The volume also includes 'Claude Gueux' and 'L'Affaire Tapner', texts that reinforce this denunciation.
Volume in the Classiques collection from Le Livre de Poche, edited by Guy Rosa with a preface by Robert Badinter. The original work was published in 1829; this French edition dates from 1989.
For readers of French classics who want to learn about Victor Hugo's stance on capital punishment.
French novelist, poet and dramatist, leading figure of Romanticism and author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
