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

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帝制 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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• 现在的人都不会写这么有深度的文字了。 -greenoasis- ♀ 给 greenoasis 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 01/19/2019 postreply 21:21:34

• 相对来说，我比较喜欢狄更斯的《双城记》。 -Porcelana- ♀ 给 Porcelana 发送悄悄话 Porcelana 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 01/19/2019 postreply 21:24:31

• ZB! 精神上跪倒在美联储面前的钱的奴隶"喜欢狄更斯的《双城记》" ? -career- ♂ 给 career 发送悄悄话 (329 bytes) () 01/19/2019 postreply 22:58:25

• vs. 探春's claim "只会发生在有专制皇帝的地方。" -career- ♂ 给 career 发送悄悄话 (3053 bytes) () 01/19/2019 postreply 21:31:24

• 满嘴里跑舌头的探春没看过*ANY*有深度的文字 -career- ♂ 给 career 发送悄悄话 (211 bytes) () 01/19/2019 postreply 21:40:24

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