Les Misérables
Victor Hugo (1802–1885), 1862
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Ατμόσφαιρα: πάθος, θλίψη και ελπίδα. Μιλά για την εξουσία, την αγάπη και τον θάνατο.
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For many great deeds are performed in petty combats. There are instances of bravery ignored and obstinate, which defend themselves step by step in that fatal onslaught of necessities and turpitudes. Noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye beholds, which are requited with no renown, which are saluted with no trumpet blast. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have their heroes; obscure heroes, who are, sometimes, grander than the heroes who win renown. Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown destiny. This destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the tomb. Then something appears to him, and he begins to distinguish the definitive. The definitive, meditate upon that word. The living perceive the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again. The bargain was concluded. The mother passed the night at the inn, gave up her money and left her child, fastened her carpetbag once more, now reduced in volume by the removal of the outfit, and light henceforth and set out on the following morning, intending to return soon. People arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! Τι λένε οι αναγνώστες
Οι αναγνώστες λένε ότι το βιβλίο είναι βαθιά συγκινητικό και συχνά εμπνευστικό, αν και πολλοί κουράζονται από την έκτασή του και τις παρεκβάσεις. Μια μειοψηφία θεωρεί πως η συναισθηματική του φόρτιση μοιάζει θεατρική και πως οι αγιοποιημένοι χαρακτήρες δεν πείθουν.
Βιβλία με παρόμοια αίσθηση
Περισσότερα βιβλία — Victor Hugo
Οι εργάτες της θάλασσας
Victor Hugo, 1866
Ένας μοναχικός ψαράς από το Γκέρνζι προσπαθεί να ανασύρει τη μηχανή ενός ατμόπλοιου από έναν βράχο στην ανοιχτή θάλασσα, για να κερδίσει την καρδιά μιας κοπέλας που σχεδόν δεν τον προσέχει.
Πού θα το βρεις
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Ερωτήσεις αναγνωστών
- Πώς είναι το «Les Misérables»;
- Ατμόσφαιρα: πάθος, θλίψη και ελπίδα. Μιλά για την εξουσία, την αγάπη και τον θάνατο.
- Τι να διαβάσω μετά το «Les Misérables»;
- Αν σου άρεσε το «Les Misérables», δοκίμασε «A Tale of Two Cities» (Charles Dickens), «Μικρές κυρίες» (Louisa May Alcott) και «Crime and Punishment» (Fyodor Dostoevsky).
Μια γεύση από τη ροή
A man keeps one small proof that his old life happened.
Releasing his arm, she laid her hand upon his shoulder. After looking doubtfully at it, two or three times, as if to be sure that it was really there, he laid down his work, put his hand to his neck, and took off a blackened string with a scrap of folded rag attached to it. He opened this, carefully, on his knee, and it contained a very little quantity of hair: not more than one or two long golden hairs, which he had, in some old day, wound off upon his finger.
A Tale of Two Cities · Charles Dickens
What if the punishment you wanted most was remorse, and it never came.
And if only fate would have sent him repentance—burning repentance that would have torn his heart and robbed him of sleep, that repentance, the awful agony of which brings visions of hanging or drowning! Oh, he would have been glad of it! Tears and agonies would at least have been life. But he did not repent of his crime.
Crime and Punishment · Fyodor Dostoevsky
The particular agony of walking into a room where everyone already knows each other.
It was, then, into the midst of this tumult and disorder that our young man advanced with a beating heart, ranging his long rapier up his lanky leg, and keeping one hand on the edge of his cap, with that half-smile of the embarrassed provincial who wishes to put on a good face. When he had passed one group he began to breathe more freely; but he could not help observing that they turned round to look at him, and for the first time in his life d’Artagnan, who had till that day entertained a very good opinion of himself, felt ridiculous.
The Three Musketeers · Alexandre Dumas
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