Los Miserables

Escrito por Victor Hugo

Narrado por Rodrigo Martinez

Los miserables es una novela del poeta y escritor francés Victor Hugo publicada en 1862, considerada como una de las obras más importantes del siglo XIX. La novela, de estilo romántico, plantea por medio de su argumento una discusión sobre el bien y el mal, sobre la ley, la política, la ética, la justicia y la religión. El autor confesó que se había inspirado en Vidocq —criminal francés que se redimió y acabó inaugurando la Policía Nacional francesa— para crear a los dos protagonistas y que la historia de su país le había inspirado para situar el contexto histórico. Por ese motivo, los personajes viven la Rebelión de junio (1832) y los posteriores cambios políticos. Además, el autor analiza los estereotipos de aquel momento y muestra su oposición a la pena de muerte. En su núcleo, al fin, la novela sirve como una defensa de los oprimidos sea cual sea el lugar o situación sociohistórica que vivan.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Stream Readers
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 9 sept 2022
• ISBN: 9781669660798

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.”