347 pages
French language
Published Jan. 2, 2012 by Librairie générale française.
347 pages
French language
Published Jan. 2, 2012 by Librairie générale française.
In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert--Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.