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"Les Miserables"

Book Abstract by: kk_87     

Original Author: Victor Hugo
This abstract was translated from " Клетниците"

"Les Miserables", the title itself suggests, is a book dedicated to the oppressed and humiliated in the world, the
poor hard-pressed people, defenseless women and children. The novel reflects the era of restless during the restoration after the fall of Napoleon, the revolution in 1830, and in particular the last popular uprising in Paris in 1832. Against the backdrop of these important events, the reader follows the tragic, filled with the vicissitudes of fate as the protagonist, Jean Valjean, a victim of monstrous laws in bourgeois society, which vigilantly guard their property. You will find it unbelievable the fact that because of a stolen bread, and then steal from honest worker becoming unemployed and forced to steal to feed young children of his sister, he was sentenced to penal colony.
You will track the lamentable history Fantini, innocent girl deceived by the wealthy son, passing only because of trust to this conscienceless youth through the severe trials to die very young, without seeing the child si.Shte see pure and beautiful love by Marius and goats will become involuntary witnesses to the heroic struggle of a handful of enthusiastic young people against the army of the numerous barricades during the uprising. And in conjunction with the Sergeant of Waterloo supposed to rough and briefly at another important event in history frnskata the battle of Waterloo.
Will get acquainted more closely and faithfully with little Gavroche, charming, cheerful and brave child of Paris, who joked with death and met with her song.
Divide divided into moral and Tenardie Jean Valjean. Also fundamentally different are clean and Messy Tolomies Marius, delicate, helpless Fantini Tenardieritsa evil and ugly. Cruel and unjust bourgeois society becomes honest, naive and ignorant worker consciously bitter and filled with hatred towards every living beast in navinnata girl prostitute in a child-guttersnipe. It is the reason for the existence of people such as limited or Zhaver Tenardie as ugly visor and members of his gang.
To you maybe many things in "Les Miserables" will seem distant and unreal, even exaggerated. But let''s not forget that the homeland of the South there are still people sleeping under the bridges of the Seine, still in a Paris street on which they walk miserable creatures, slaves of the bourgeois morality. Still largely in many countries around the world has homeless children who do not attend school and are deprived of any care.
Therefore, "Les Miserables" sound modern today after more than stoletie.I will sound so, "while the earth exists darkness and misery."
Published: September 29, 2009
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