Último día de un condenado a muerte

Escrito por Victor Hugo

Narrado por Albert Cortés

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. Un condenado a muerte anónimo decide escribir en una especie de diario las últimas horas de su vida. La incertidumbre, la soledad, la angustia y el terror se suceden en un relato que finaliza justo cuando la ejecución va a producirse. A través del sufrimiento del narrador, conel que llega a identificarse el lector, la novela niega cualquier valor positivo a la pena de muerte: es injusta, inhumana y cruel, y la sociedad que la aplica es responsable de un crimen como cualquier otro.(Besançon, Francia, 1802 - París, 1885) Poeta, dramaturgo y novelista francés considerado el máximo exponente del Romanticismo en su país. La infancia de Victor Hugo transcurrió en Besançon, salvo dos años (1811-1812) en que residió con su familia en Madrid, donde su padre había sido nombrado comandante general. De temprana vocación literaria, ya en 1816 escribió en un cuaderno escolar: «Quiero ser Chateaubriand o nada».

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: SAGA Egmont
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 24 jun 2020
• ISBN: 9788726527018

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.”