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Les Mis茅rables
Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged Inspector Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty.
1463 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 31, 1862
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Victor Hugo
5,576听books12.7k听followersAfter Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1831) and
Les Mis茅rables
(1862).
This poet, playwright, novelist, dramatist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, and perhaps the most influential, important exponent of the Romantic movement in France, campaigned for human rights. People in France regard him as one of greatest poets of that country and know him better abroad.
This poet, playwright, novelist, dramatist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, and perhaps the most influential, important exponent of the Romantic movement in France, campaigned for human rights. People in France regard him as one of greatest poets of that country and know him better abroad.
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June 21, 2024
welcome to...sigh...LES MAYSERABLES.
i'm going to read a chapter (or whatever the this-book equivalent of a chapter is 鈥� 100 pages? a normal size book? undue suffering?) of this a day until i'm done, a process which will begin in may but end way after that.
i've been thinking about reading this book as a way to get into weightlifting, so. it's beach body season or whatever.
let's do this. i'm so scared right now.
BOOK ONE: A GOOD MAN
oh, great. this is divided into 48 books. that's awesome. a book a day of this book alone. no worries, no problem. i'm not troubled. i have no regrets. it's fine that this bit is a million pages long and all of my above jokes are thus true.
sometimes i think i would never join a cult, but i feel like i just got radicalized by the hermit weirdo living in a hut 45 minutes away from society in this book, so. too close to call.
BOOK TWO: THE FALL
yesterday i read an ebook of this because i couldn't run out to buy a copy, and today i am reading it physically. it is so goddamn heavy it's insane.
this jean valjean guy is kind of a bad vibe thus far. #blessed that the bishop was successfully able to be like..."get your act together my guy."
BOOK THREE: IN THE YEAR 1817
this one has a huge time jump, is half the length of the first two, and begins with a 6 page "here's what you missed on glee" style recap of pop culture since we last saw jean valjean. in other words it rocks.
only truer because it follows 8 really fun characters.
BOOK FOUR: ENTRUSTING SOMETIMES MEANS GIVING AWAY
this book was as short as it was depressing. for being little more than the first part of cinderella it sure feels novel in how upsetting it is.
BOOK FIVE: THE DESCENT
well, that doesn't sound good. i thought the place we were in was pretty low already.
so things did get much worse, and now they appear to be getting better, but this book has given me trust issues and i don't believe it's going anywhere good from here.
BOOK SIX: JAVERT
get a load of this guy (derogatory). i don't know much of the story of les mis, in spite of its cultural prowess and the fact that i technically attended my sister's high school production of the musical (physically if not in spirit), but even i know this loser.
BOOK SEVEN: THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR
i mean. i don't even know what to say about this chapter. the emotional range here...i have no choice but to stan.
i'm using humor as a crutch because this made me really sad lol.
BOOK EIGHT: AFTER-EFFECT
this is the nicest possible way of saying "in which sh*t hits the fan."
ok. even with that expectation i was not prepared for the extent to which sh*t would hit the fan.
BOOK ONE: WATERLOO
we have completed part one: fantine, and we move on to part two: cosette. i don't know why i feel like i have to avoid spoilers for this million year old classic but here we are.
okay so this was literally a 50 page recounting of the battle of waterloo. i guess in hindsight i don't know what i expected.
BOOK TWO: THE SHIP ORION
it's kind of reassuring that even in the 19th century they were dealing with tabloids and fake news. but leave my boy valjean out of it...
is there anything more jean valjean than risking his own life to save a stranger's, and then also using that peril as a means of escaping prison? one thing about jean is my guy is going to escape.
BOOK THREE: A DEATHBED PROMISE IS HONORED
okay, fine. i took multiple days off this project. in my defense reading this book is not conducive to busy days. i can't exactly haul a 1400-page tome around with me just in case i have a minute between social obligations.
hard to convey the extent to which i root for things to go well in this book, even though i know they're building me up just to break me back down again.
BOOK FOUR: THE GORBEAU TENEMENT
i can't stress enough how much i live in fear at every moment. oh, the beggar that valjean has been generously giving money might be javert? can't surprise me. i was prepared for the worst from minute one.
BOOK FIVE: SILENT STALKERS IN THE DARK
well, that doesn't sound good.
javert is operating on kendrick lamar levels of hatred...just picking up newspapers on a daily basis hunting for clues about a guy he straight up thinks is dead. another level of living in his mind rent-free.
BOOK SIX: PETIT-PICPUS
you know things are getting crazy when even victor hugo is like "what i'm about to say has nothing to do with this actual story." this from the guy who spent the whole first 100 pages of the book on somebody who once had a sleepover with our protagonist.
BOOK SEVEN: PARENTHESIS
oh my gosh. now this part is like "well, since i just spent 40 pages on one specific nunnery that isn't at all relevant, surely y'all won't mind if i write a quick 12 page essay about monasticism."
to be honest, my sir...i mind. get back to the good stuff.
BOOK EIGHT: CEMETERIES TAKE WHAT THEY ARE GIVEN
[record scratch] [freeze frame on jean valjean inside of a coffin] you're probably wondering how i ended up in this situation
BOOK ONE: PARIS THROUGH THE STUDY OF ONE OF ITS ATOMS
we have concluded part two: cosette, and begin part three: marius. and i have to say, this chapter is looking like a classic case of one of hugo's lengthy sociopolitical asides.
BOOK TWO: THE CONSUMMATE BOURGEOIS
marked safe from back to back lengthy sociopolitical asides.
instead, this was another classic: a character study of a guy whose role we do not know yet and may never know.
BOOK THREE: GRANDFATHER AND GRANDSON
today i am feeling: can you believe i'm not even halfway done this book. i know the goodreads review character limit can't.
kind of funny to be radicalized because you've become just completely obsessed with your dad.
BOOK FOUR: FRIENDS OF THE ABC
throughout time, college students have always thought they are funnier and smarter and more revolutionary than they are.
but i still love them anyway.
BOOK FIVE: VIRTUE IN ADVERSITY
all this talk of parisian revolutionary teens hanging around in cafes talking about politics was sounding familiar, and i was so proud of myself for actually paying attention during my sister's play, but then i realized i was thinking of that wes anderson movie the french dispatch.
BOOK SIX: THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS
in my mind this is going to be the marius x valjean meetup: two stars to me. let's see.
i didn't even consider this would be a meet cute between marius and cosette. i might be too much of a jean stan. if that's even possible.
BOOK SEVEN: PATRON-MINETTE
quick sidenote for some inferno fanfiction and an intro to a crew of villains. i'd say "our villains," but that would be a crazy assumption for an author who just loves to introduce us to guys.
BOOK EIGHT: THE VILLAINOUS PAUPER
to be totally honest with you, this 80 page section of a book written 150 years ago is one of the most exciting and unpredictable and satisfying scenes i've ever read.
jean valjean fan till i die.
BOOK ONE: A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY
we have concluded part three: marius, and have broken out of our character titles and entered a little something called "part four: the rue plumet idyll and the rue st-denis epic." this part title and book title are not pairing up for what sound like an adventurous romp.
interesting to find out that victor hugo defines "a few pages" as 34.
BOOK TWO: EPONINE
praying for the streets since this girl appears to be in them.
marius is giving me the same secondhand stress i got when harry potter wouldn't do his homework. please get a job and do it.
BOOK THREE: THE HOUSE IN RUE PLUMET
you guys all know how i feel about jean valjean but even i can admit the man has to take a chill pill. descending into a deep depression because your adopted daughter has an un-acted-upon crush is crazy.
BOOK FOUR: HELP FROM BELOW MAY BE FROM ON HIGH
if i saw an old man get attacked at night and then beat the hell out of his attacker, i'd clap too. i can't say that i would then steal the attacker's purse and give it robin hood-style to another conveniently located old man, but that's more for lack of skill than desire.
BOOK FIVE: WHICH DOES NOT END THE WAY IT BEGAN
you know that thing of how if someone writes you a love letter, they love you, but if they write you a hundred love letters, they love writing love letters?
i feel like that automatically applies if the love letter in question is 15 pages long.
BOOK SIX: YOUNG GAVROCHE
well, everyone...welcome to june. i've spent a full month with this book, and i've gotten just over halfway into it for my efforts.
if i were a little child criminal who was known for climbing anything, and i'd been asked to rescue my deadbeat dad at my own peril for no reward, i don't know if i'd be interested. but i guess that's why i'm me and not little gavroche.
BOOK SEVEN: SLANG
something tells me we're in for another one of hugo's tangentially related 40 page essays.
BOOK EIGHT: ENCHANTMENT AND DESPAIR
love that marius flirts by being like "i almost killed a veteran for you" and then refusing to elaborate when cosette asks him what the hell that means.
ok. i didn't feel enchanted but of course the despair hits.
BOOK NINE: WHERE ARE THEY GOING?
victor, where are WE going. people are moving, riots are occurring, new characters are being introduced, and we have 500 pages left to go. which is of course 2 normal books worth, and about a third of this. we should be WINDING DOWN by now.
BOOK TEN: THE FIFTH OF JUNE 1832
at one point in this victor says "one last word before we rejoin the story," and then what follows is鈥攁nd i'm not joking鈥�11 more pages without rejoining the story.
BOOK ELEVEN: THE ATOM EMBRACES THE STORM
"come along with me to take down the parisian government at the barricades" -courfeyrac if he was a vlogger
BOOK TWELVE: CORINTHE
i did not expect to see the word "nark" in this book. but i am loving seeing it applied to javert as he is tied to a pole.
BOOK THIRTEEN: MARIUS ENTERS INTO DARKNESS
we've crossed the thousand page mark. marius better not enter into anything he's not planning on leaving soon.
well. i fear he's on his romeo and juliet sh*t, and therefore may actually be leaving sans his mortal coil.
BOOK FOURTEEN: THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR
the chapters with titles like this one are always pretty okay. it's the ones with titles like "let me tell you about 1842 paris" that casually include the most devastating sentence you've ever read.
not marius' sentimental ass entering the barricade like an action hero...
BOOK FIFTEEN: RUE DE L'HOMME ARME
it's been roughly 200 pages since the last time we encountered jean valjean. what a sight for sore eyes (literally) (my eyes are sore from having read 1,031 pages of 19th century french tragedy with 400+ to go).
even if this is my least favorite version of jean: Weird Dad.
BOOK ONE: THE WAR WITHIN FOUR WALLS
we are beginning part five: jean valjean. now i understand the title: the fact that i would have been thrilled to spend our remaining hundreds of pages with jean at any other time except this creepy overprotective obsessed father one is making me miserable.
jean and javert are truly having a serendipity-style series of rom-com coincidences and meet-cutes. how do these two keep finding each other.
BOOK TWO: THE BOWELS OF LEVIATHAN
i think i've developed a pretty healthy sense of victor's priorities, but even i could not have expected that this chapter, which follows a climactic scene that killed off a dozen named characters, would be a lengthy diatribe about poop.
BOOK THREE: THE MIRE, YET THE SOUL
possibly the most well-constructed joke of all time: 16 pages about parisian waste management followed by "Jean Valjean, it turned out, was in the sewers of Paris."
BOOK FOUR: JAVERT DERAILED
oh my god. what the hell.
i should have expected that this evil goddamn book would make me feel sadness over even JAVERT!!!
BOOK FIVE: GRANDFATHER AND GRANDSON
we've got a couple hundred pages to go and it seems like marius has his happily ever after. this isn't my first rodeo. 4 more chapters is plenty of time for victor to f*ck his sh*t up.
if you'll pardon the french.
BOOK SIX: THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT
i did not expect this book to contain a closed-door sex scene.
then again 1400 pages is a lot to fill up.
BOOK SEVEN: THE LAST DROP IN THE CHALICE
remember how jean valjean was originally stealing for a brood of interchangeable nieces and nephews we never saw again? this guy is just obsessed with forming familial bonds.
this one is pissing me off for so many reasons...how is it saintly for jean valjean to tell marius the truth but force marius to lie? how is marius' reaction of disgust and rejection supposed to be all good with me? why doesn't cosette get to know or be involved with anything besides repeatedly being described as a beautiful angel??? this is the first time where i'm like damn. this is old timey as hell.
BOOK EIGHT: THE WANING TWILIGHT
if marius has a hundred haters i'm one of them. if marius has one hater it's me. if marius has no haters i'm dead.
BOOK NINE: ULTIMATE DARKNESS, ULTIMATE DAWN
hi mtv and welcome to the final chapter of les mis.
i can't believe we made it. it's been 51 days, 1,275 pages, and 3-7 mental breakdowns, but we're here. and i have to say i couldn't have done it without you all, because quite literally if i didn't have your nice compliments and jokes in the comments i would have given up on this 41 days ago. anyway. enough kindness, it's off-brand for me. let's finish this.
OVERALL
this book is: long. ridiculous. full of lengthy asides about sewage and waterloo and parisian geography, it is also full of unforgettable characters. it's almost unrelentingly sad, and yet the emotional impact of it is so heavy and real. it's beautifully written. it's one of a kind.
this is crazy to say about a book that will take nearly two months to read even if you're dedicating a significant amount of time to it every single day, but. i recommend it.
rating: 4
i'm going to read a chapter (or whatever the this-book equivalent of a chapter is 鈥� 100 pages? a normal size book? undue suffering?) of this a day until i'm done, a process which will begin in may but end way after that.
i've been thinking about reading this book as a way to get into weightlifting, so. it's beach body season or whatever.
let's do this. i'm so scared right now.
BOOK ONE: A GOOD MAN
oh, great. this is divided into 48 books. that's awesome. a book a day of this book alone. no worries, no problem. i'm not troubled. i have no regrets. it's fine that this bit is a million pages long and all of my above jokes are thus true.
sometimes i think i would never join a cult, but i feel like i just got radicalized by the hermit weirdo living in a hut 45 minutes away from society in this book, so. too close to call.
BOOK TWO: THE FALL
yesterday i read an ebook of this because i couldn't run out to buy a copy, and today i am reading it physically. it is so goddamn heavy it's insane.
this jean valjean guy is kind of a bad vibe thus far. #blessed that the bishop was successfully able to be like..."get your act together my guy."
BOOK THREE: IN THE YEAR 1817
this one has a huge time jump, is half the length of the first two, and begins with a 6 page "here's what you missed on glee" style recap of pop culture since we last saw jean valjean. in other words it rocks.
only truer because it follows 8 really fun characters.
BOOK FOUR: ENTRUSTING SOMETIMES MEANS GIVING AWAY
this book was as short as it was depressing. for being little more than the first part of cinderella it sure feels novel in how upsetting it is.
BOOK FIVE: THE DESCENT
well, that doesn't sound good. i thought the place we were in was pretty low already.
so things did get much worse, and now they appear to be getting better, but this book has given me trust issues and i don't believe it's going anywhere good from here.
BOOK SIX: JAVERT
get a load of this guy (derogatory). i don't know much of the story of les mis, in spite of its cultural prowess and the fact that i technically attended my sister's high school production of the musical (physically if not in spirit), but even i know this loser.
BOOK SEVEN: THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR
i mean. i don't even know what to say about this chapter. the emotional range here...i have no choice but to stan.
i'm using humor as a crutch because this made me really sad lol.
BOOK EIGHT: AFTER-EFFECT
this is the nicest possible way of saying "in which sh*t hits the fan."
ok. even with that expectation i was not prepared for the extent to which sh*t would hit the fan.
BOOK ONE: WATERLOO
we have completed part one: fantine, and we move on to part two: cosette. i don't know why i feel like i have to avoid spoilers for this million year old classic but here we are.
okay so this was literally a 50 page recounting of the battle of waterloo. i guess in hindsight i don't know what i expected.
BOOK TWO: THE SHIP ORION
it's kind of reassuring that even in the 19th century they were dealing with tabloids and fake news. but leave my boy valjean out of it...
is there anything more jean valjean than risking his own life to save a stranger's, and then also using that peril as a means of escaping prison? one thing about jean is my guy is going to escape.
BOOK THREE: A DEATHBED PROMISE IS HONORED
okay, fine. i took multiple days off this project. in my defense reading this book is not conducive to busy days. i can't exactly haul a 1400-page tome around with me just in case i have a minute between social obligations.
hard to convey the extent to which i root for things to go well in this book, even though i know they're building me up just to break me back down again.
BOOK FOUR: THE GORBEAU TENEMENT
i can't stress enough how much i live in fear at every moment. oh, the beggar that valjean has been generously giving money might be javert? can't surprise me. i was prepared for the worst from minute one.
BOOK FIVE: SILENT STALKERS IN THE DARK
well, that doesn't sound good.
javert is operating on kendrick lamar levels of hatred...just picking up newspapers on a daily basis hunting for clues about a guy he straight up thinks is dead. another level of living in his mind rent-free.
BOOK SIX: PETIT-PICPUS
you know things are getting crazy when even victor hugo is like "what i'm about to say has nothing to do with this actual story." this from the guy who spent the whole first 100 pages of the book on somebody who once had a sleepover with our protagonist.
BOOK SEVEN: PARENTHESIS
oh my gosh. now this part is like "well, since i just spent 40 pages on one specific nunnery that isn't at all relevant, surely y'all won't mind if i write a quick 12 page essay about monasticism."
to be honest, my sir...i mind. get back to the good stuff.
BOOK EIGHT: CEMETERIES TAKE WHAT THEY ARE GIVEN
[record scratch] [freeze frame on jean valjean inside of a coffin] you're probably wondering how i ended up in this situation
BOOK ONE: PARIS THROUGH THE STUDY OF ONE OF ITS ATOMS
we have concluded part two: cosette, and begin part three: marius. and i have to say, this chapter is looking like a classic case of one of hugo's lengthy sociopolitical asides.
BOOK TWO: THE CONSUMMATE BOURGEOIS
marked safe from back to back lengthy sociopolitical asides.
instead, this was another classic: a character study of a guy whose role we do not know yet and may never know.
BOOK THREE: GRANDFATHER AND GRANDSON
today i am feeling: can you believe i'm not even halfway done this book. i know the goodreads review character limit can't.
kind of funny to be radicalized because you've become just completely obsessed with your dad.
BOOK FOUR: FRIENDS OF THE ABC
throughout time, college students have always thought they are funnier and smarter and more revolutionary than they are.
but i still love them anyway.
BOOK FIVE: VIRTUE IN ADVERSITY
all this talk of parisian revolutionary teens hanging around in cafes talking about politics was sounding familiar, and i was so proud of myself for actually paying attention during my sister's play, but then i realized i was thinking of that wes anderson movie the french dispatch.
BOOK SIX: THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS
in my mind this is going to be the marius x valjean meetup: two stars to me. let's see.
i didn't even consider this would be a meet cute between marius and cosette. i might be too much of a jean stan. if that's even possible.
BOOK SEVEN: PATRON-MINETTE
quick sidenote for some inferno fanfiction and an intro to a crew of villains. i'd say "our villains," but that would be a crazy assumption for an author who just loves to introduce us to guys.
BOOK EIGHT: THE VILLAINOUS PAUPER
to be totally honest with you, this 80 page section of a book written 150 years ago is one of the most exciting and unpredictable and satisfying scenes i've ever read.
jean valjean fan till i die.
BOOK ONE: A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY
we have concluded part three: marius, and have broken out of our character titles and entered a little something called "part four: the rue plumet idyll and the rue st-denis epic." this part title and book title are not pairing up for what sound like an adventurous romp.
interesting to find out that victor hugo defines "a few pages" as 34.
BOOK TWO: EPONINE
praying for the streets since this girl appears to be in them.
marius is giving me the same secondhand stress i got when harry potter wouldn't do his homework. please get a job and do it.
BOOK THREE: THE HOUSE IN RUE PLUMET
you guys all know how i feel about jean valjean but even i can admit the man has to take a chill pill. descending into a deep depression because your adopted daughter has an un-acted-upon crush is crazy.
BOOK FOUR: HELP FROM BELOW MAY BE FROM ON HIGH
if i saw an old man get attacked at night and then beat the hell out of his attacker, i'd clap too. i can't say that i would then steal the attacker's purse and give it robin hood-style to another conveniently located old man, but that's more for lack of skill than desire.
BOOK FIVE: WHICH DOES NOT END THE WAY IT BEGAN
you know that thing of how if someone writes you a love letter, they love you, but if they write you a hundred love letters, they love writing love letters?
i feel like that automatically applies if the love letter in question is 15 pages long.
BOOK SIX: YOUNG GAVROCHE
well, everyone...welcome to june. i've spent a full month with this book, and i've gotten just over halfway into it for my efforts.
if i were a little child criminal who was known for climbing anything, and i'd been asked to rescue my deadbeat dad at my own peril for no reward, i don't know if i'd be interested. but i guess that's why i'm me and not little gavroche.
BOOK SEVEN: SLANG
something tells me we're in for another one of hugo's tangentially related 40 page essays.
BOOK EIGHT: ENCHANTMENT AND DESPAIR
love that marius flirts by being like "i almost killed a veteran for you" and then refusing to elaborate when cosette asks him what the hell that means.
ok. i didn't feel enchanted but of course the despair hits.
BOOK NINE: WHERE ARE THEY GOING?
victor, where are WE going. people are moving, riots are occurring, new characters are being introduced, and we have 500 pages left to go. which is of course 2 normal books worth, and about a third of this. we should be WINDING DOWN by now.
BOOK TEN: THE FIFTH OF JUNE 1832
at one point in this victor says "one last word before we rejoin the story," and then what follows is鈥攁nd i'm not joking鈥�11 more pages without rejoining the story.
BOOK ELEVEN: THE ATOM EMBRACES THE STORM
"come along with me to take down the parisian government at the barricades" -courfeyrac if he was a vlogger
BOOK TWELVE: CORINTHE
i did not expect to see the word "nark" in this book. but i am loving seeing it applied to javert as he is tied to a pole.
BOOK THIRTEEN: MARIUS ENTERS INTO DARKNESS
we've crossed the thousand page mark. marius better not enter into anything he's not planning on leaving soon.
well. i fear he's on his romeo and juliet sh*t, and therefore may actually be leaving sans his mortal coil.
BOOK FOURTEEN: THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR
the chapters with titles like this one are always pretty okay. it's the ones with titles like "let me tell you about 1842 paris" that casually include the most devastating sentence you've ever read.
not marius' sentimental ass entering the barricade like an action hero...
BOOK FIFTEEN: RUE DE L'HOMME ARME
it's been roughly 200 pages since the last time we encountered jean valjean. what a sight for sore eyes (literally) (my eyes are sore from having read 1,031 pages of 19th century french tragedy with 400+ to go).
even if this is my least favorite version of jean: Weird Dad.
BOOK ONE: THE WAR WITHIN FOUR WALLS
we are beginning part five: jean valjean. now i understand the title: the fact that i would have been thrilled to spend our remaining hundreds of pages with jean at any other time except this creepy overprotective obsessed father one is making me miserable.
jean and javert are truly having a serendipity-style series of rom-com coincidences and meet-cutes. how do these two keep finding each other.
BOOK TWO: THE BOWELS OF LEVIATHAN
i think i've developed a pretty healthy sense of victor's priorities, but even i could not have expected that this chapter, which follows a climactic scene that killed off a dozen named characters, would be a lengthy diatribe about poop.
BOOK THREE: THE MIRE, YET THE SOUL
possibly the most well-constructed joke of all time: 16 pages about parisian waste management followed by "Jean Valjean, it turned out, was in the sewers of Paris."
BOOK FOUR: JAVERT DERAILED
oh my god. what the hell.
i should have expected that this evil goddamn book would make me feel sadness over even JAVERT!!!
BOOK FIVE: GRANDFATHER AND GRANDSON
we've got a couple hundred pages to go and it seems like marius has his happily ever after. this isn't my first rodeo. 4 more chapters is plenty of time for victor to f*ck his sh*t up.
if you'll pardon the french.
BOOK SIX: THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT
i did not expect this book to contain a closed-door sex scene.
then again 1400 pages is a lot to fill up.
BOOK SEVEN: THE LAST DROP IN THE CHALICE
remember how jean valjean was originally stealing for a brood of interchangeable nieces and nephews we never saw again? this guy is just obsessed with forming familial bonds.
this one is pissing me off for so many reasons...how is it saintly for jean valjean to tell marius the truth but force marius to lie? how is marius' reaction of disgust and rejection supposed to be all good with me? why doesn't cosette get to know or be involved with anything besides repeatedly being described as a beautiful angel??? this is the first time where i'm like damn. this is old timey as hell.
BOOK EIGHT: THE WANING TWILIGHT
if marius has a hundred haters i'm one of them. if marius has one hater it's me. if marius has no haters i'm dead.
BOOK NINE: ULTIMATE DARKNESS, ULTIMATE DAWN
hi mtv and welcome to the final chapter of les mis.
i can't believe we made it. it's been 51 days, 1,275 pages, and 3-7 mental breakdowns, but we're here. and i have to say i couldn't have done it without you all, because quite literally if i didn't have your nice compliments and jokes in the comments i would have given up on this 41 days ago. anyway. enough kindness, it's off-brand for me. let's finish this.
OVERALL
this book is: long. ridiculous. full of lengthy asides about sewage and waterloo and parisian geography, it is also full of unforgettable characters. it's almost unrelentingly sad, and yet the emotional impact of it is so heavy and real. it's beautifully written. it's one of a kind.
this is crazy to say about a book that will take nearly two months to read even if you're dedicating a significant amount of time to it every single day, but. i recommend it.
rating: 4
September 17, 2014
Let's say that I could choose a single book with the guarantee that every man, woman, and child would read it. I would not choose my top three favorites, nor would I choose the one whose remnants are permanently inked upon me. I would choose this one. You argue, the length! The time period! The cultural barriers! It's just another long expounding by some old dead white guy whose type has suffocated literature for centuries! Women will be frustrated with poor representation, people who aren't white will be angered by no representation, and everyone will bored to tears! Alright, I see that. Now, let me explain.
Human rights have not been perfected. They are as much a work in progress now as they were 150 years ago when this book was first published. If you wish to find the book that gives every variation on the theme of humanity its due, it does not exist, and in all likelihood never will. With that in mind, it is this book that I choose, as while Victor Hugo may have been limited by the era he grew up in, he did a damn good job in dreaming beyond it. He wrote what he knew, but he also wrote what he hoped, and together they form a piece of writing that can mean something to everyone, whatever their life consists of.
The book is called 'The Miserables'. I have a feeling that it is the blatant despair that this title provokes that has dissuaded publishers from rendering it into English, instead keeping it in that slightly prettier to the ear French form. It can even be shortened to that chic and oh so clever 'Les Mis', as is the norm whenever the play is discussed. In that light, when you say that truncated phrase it brings to mind not the triumphant book in its majestic entirety, but the abridged version, or perhaps the even more abridged play. You think of the story, but you do not think of the author's ideas, ones that he devotes full chapters to and are just as important to this tome as the characters he has sent running through it. And this is a tragedy.
Is tragedy too harsh a word? I don't think so. The book itself is one where tragedy heavily outweighs every other emotional aspect, and reducing it to a pittance of itself is flat out disgraceful. You have countless flavors of human sorrow worked out here: imprisonment, ostracization, slavery, decay of health, decay of morals, decay of life through the brutality of war as well as the slow grind of society鈥檚 wheels. There are also the more subtle restrictions on the human spirit, propagated by a firmness of belief that slowly stagnates into constricting bigotry, where humans substitute bias for their reality and confine themselves to a small and mean existence. These confines are more difficult to escape from than the strongest chains, which may bend and break under pressure, whereas prejudices will turn in on themselves and feed on the opposition. It is these barriers that build the barricades, it is these walls that let slip the dogs of war, it is these restrictions that make someone relish petty glories gained in the downfall of their fellow human beings. Where a difference of opinion exists, there will be conflict, and Victor Hugo was intimately familiar with the facets of this violent mechanism.
He did not want this for the world. More specifically, he did not want this for his France, his Paris, his creative beacon that teems with contagious culture and ridiculous fashions to this very day, one that can be silly but is often so very, very brave. Like Gavroche the gamin, it thumbs its nose at the world and thinks it slow and stupid, but all the same it loves its fellow human beings, and lives for the times when it can lead them, striding forward towards that thing called Progress. Victor Hugo loved the concept of Progress, and he wished that everyone would love it as well. In his words:
In all this sadness and life cut short by miserable conditions long before its time, there is still hope. Victor Hugo illustrated this in his diverging sections as thoroughly as he did in his main story, as hard as that may be to believe. It is true, though. For example, his section on the Battle of Waterloo seems no more than an endless list of casualties, pages of warfare and tactics, and death, so much death. But at the very end, he points out it is not this battle that we remember in so much detail, nor any that came before it. We remember literature. In Hugo鈥檚 words:
One last mention. Victor Hugo鈥檚 prose has been accused of excessive flouncing about, rambling sentences that quickly devolve into meaningless lists without form or function beyond the enjoyment of their own existence. I say, isn鈥檛 that last part enough? Reading his sentences brings to mind a dance, an endless waltz, to a symphony that builds and builds to a final crescendo, for Hugo is very good at taking his countless paragraphs and using them to reach a final glorious message. He could have said it plainly, but it would not have been nearly as powerful without all the exposition; just as his point about the memory of Byron outliving the memory of Waterloo would not have been nearly as striking had he not gone through the motions of describing every minute detail of that terrible battle. To bring the reader to his level of understanding and to make them feel as much as he does about these things, the prose is essential. And frankly, I have yet to come across another author that is as joyous to read as he is, for even while he is going on and on about useless trivia from a time long past, his enthusiasm is contagious. He loved what he wrote about, and he wanted you to love it too, progressing sentences growing more and more triumphant much like the Progress he wished for mankind. An ideal where all, I repeat, all are allowed to flourish and grow, developing their own ideas while more importantly learning to accept those of others, where a stretch of one's limb doesn't require the injury or confinement of another's.
So, read the full version, if you can. You鈥檙e welcome to the other, shorter versions, but read the full one at least once in your lifetime. Read the introduction even, for in this particular edition there is a wonderful amount of detail about Victor Hugo鈥檚 life that brings the book into beautiful focus. The introduction also calls the abridged version insufficient, and says:
And lastly, for the tl;dr'ers, a summary for what I have said above, which rests within the very first pages of the book:
Human rights have not been perfected. They are as much a work in progress now as they were 150 years ago when this book was first published. If you wish to find the book that gives every variation on the theme of humanity its due, it does not exist, and in all likelihood never will. With that in mind, it is this book that I choose, as while Victor Hugo may have been limited by the era he grew up in, he did a damn good job in dreaming beyond it. He wrote what he knew, but he also wrote what he hoped, and together they form a piece of writing that can mean something to everyone, whatever their life consists of.
The book is called 'The Miserables'. I have a feeling that it is the blatant despair that this title provokes that has dissuaded publishers from rendering it into English, instead keeping it in that slightly prettier to the ear French form. It can even be shortened to that chic and oh so clever 'Les Mis', as is the norm whenever the play is discussed. In that light, when you say that truncated phrase it brings to mind not the triumphant book in its majestic entirety, but the abridged version, or perhaps the even more abridged play. You think of the story, but you do not think of the author's ideas, ones that he devotes full chapters to and are just as important to this tome as the characters he has sent running through it. And this is a tragedy.
Is tragedy too harsh a word? I don't think so. The book itself is one where tragedy heavily outweighs every other emotional aspect, and reducing it to a pittance of itself is flat out disgraceful. You have countless flavors of human sorrow worked out here: imprisonment, ostracization, slavery, decay of health, decay of morals, decay of life through the brutality of war as well as the slow grind of society鈥檚 wheels. There are also the more subtle restrictions on the human spirit, propagated by a firmness of belief that slowly stagnates into constricting bigotry, where humans substitute bias for their reality and confine themselves to a small and mean existence. These confines are more difficult to escape from than the strongest chains, which may bend and break under pressure, whereas prejudices will turn in on themselves and feed on the opposition. It is these barriers that build the barricades, it is these walls that let slip the dogs of war, it is these restrictions that make someone relish petty glories gained in the downfall of their fellow human beings. Where a difference of opinion exists, there will be conflict, and Victor Hugo was intimately familiar with the facets of this violent mechanism.
He did not want this for the world. More specifically, he did not want this for his France, his Paris, his creative beacon that teems with contagious culture and ridiculous fashions to this very day, one that can be silly but is often so very, very brave. Like Gavroche the gamin, it thumbs its nose at the world and thinks it slow and stupid, but all the same it loves its fellow human beings, and lives for the times when it can lead them, striding forward towards that thing called Progress. Victor Hugo loved the concept of Progress, and he wished that everyone would love it as well. In his words:
Go on, philosophers鈥攖each, enlighten, kindle, think aloud, speak up, run joyfully toward broad daylight, fraternize in the public squares, announce the glad tidings, lavish your alphabets, proclaim human rights, sing your Marseillaises, sow enthusiasms, tear off green branches from the oak trees. Make thought a whirlwind.He sent his characters off with this dream of Progress, of finding a life for themselves, of living in a world that bettered itself by the passing day, where the future was not dreary but vibrant and brimming with unlimited potential. Many of them do not succeed. Many fall by the wayside, desiccated by sickness, shot down in wars, slain by grief and the resignation that life is not so much better than death. Some survive in miserable conditions, as restricted by their morality as by a chain around their neck. Some survive only by having stripped their morality as easily as a snake sheds its skin, and in the conditions, who can blame them? The weight of society squeezes the supports, and one is so much lighter and flexible without cumbersome thoughts of being good and kind.
In all this sadness and life cut short by miserable conditions long before its time, there is still hope. Victor Hugo illustrated this in his diverging sections as thoroughly as he did in his main story, as hard as that may be to believe. It is true, though. For example, his section on the Battle of Waterloo seems no more than an endless list of casualties, pages of warfare and tactics, and death, so much death. But at the very end, he points out it is not this battle that we remember in so much detail, nor any that came before it. We remember literature. In Hugo鈥檚 words:
Nowadays when Waterloo is merely a click of sabers, above Bl眉cher Germany has Goethe, and above Wellington England has Byron.And what of the other sections? There are many, but two that are particularly powerful in their own subtle ways are the sections on argot and the sewers. Argot is the language of criminals disguising their speech from the ignorant and the all too interested. It is an ever-changing labyrinth of slang, idioms, innuendos, wordplay that whips itself into more contorted evolutions in its effort to escape the law. If this kind of creativity runs rampant on the street, how would it fare if given a warm place to sleep, three meals a day, and a chance to improve its station in life? And the sewers. When first described, they are dirty, desperate, despicable things that do nothing but spread filth and disease and provide a home for the equally depraved. This however was Hugo鈥檚 vision of how it had been in the past. In his time, they were clean and meticulous in their function, as well designed as the streets above and ten times as useful. If humans can so improve the lot of that out of sight contraption that carries their shit, imagine what they could do with the parts of life that are meant for open viewing and enjoyment.
One last mention. Victor Hugo鈥檚 prose has been accused of excessive flouncing about, rambling sentences that quickly devolve into meaningless lists without form or function beyond the enjoyment of their own existence. I say, isn鈥檛 that last part enough? Reading his sentences brings to mind a dance, an endless waltz, to a symphony that builds and builds to a final crescendo, for Hugo is very good at taking his countless paragraphs and using them to reach a final glorious message. He could have said it plainly, but it would not have been nearly as powerful without all the exposition; just as his point about the memory of Byron outliving the memory of Waterloo would not have been nearly as striking had he not gone through the motions of describing every minute detail of that terrible battle. To bring the reader to his level of understanding and to make them feel as much as he does about these things, the prose is essential. And frankly, I have yet to come across another author that is as joyous to read as he is, for even while he is going on and on about useless trivia from a time long past, his enthusiasm is contagious. He loved what he wrote about, and he wanted you to love it too, progressing sentences growing more and more triumphant much like the Progress he wished for mankind. An ideal where all, I repeat, all are allowed to flourish and grow, developing their own ideas while more importantly learning to accept those of others, where a stretch of one's limb doesn't require the injury or confinement of another's.
So, read the full version, if you can. You鈥檙e welcome to the other, shorter versions, but read the full one at least once in your lifetime. Read the introduction even, for in this particular edition there is a wonderful amount of detail about Victor Hugo鈥檚 life that brings the book into beautiful focus. The introduction also calls the abridged version insufficient, and says:
It is almost impossible to predict the individual detail, the flashing image or human quirk precisely observed, that will burn its way into a reader鈥檚 mind for good.I cannot agree more.
And lastly, for the tl;dr'ers, a summary for what I have said above, which rests within the very first pages of the book:
So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially creates a hell on earth, and complicates with human fatality a destiny that is divine; so long as the three problems of the century鈥攖he degradation of man by the exploitation of his labor, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the atrophy of childhood by physical and spiritual night鈥攁re not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a still broader point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, there should be a need for books such as this.鈥揌auteville House, 1862
January 27, 2019
can be translated from the French into "The Miserable Ones", "The Wretched", "The Poor Ones", "The Wretched Poor" or "The Victims". So, as you will have concluded, this is not a happy book.
In fact, it is the very opposite of fluffy happiness. It is a story about the lowest and darkest parts of French society in the first half of the nineteenth century. Hugo takes the reader on a 1200+ page journey around France and into the lives of criminals, prostitutes, those wasting away under the strain of poverty... and he provides food for thought on commonly-held ideas about the nature of law, justice, love, religion and politics. Not only this, but I can say that not one page of this giant bored me.
At the end of the day you're another day older
And that's all you can say for the life of the poor
I feel the need to mention the musical of (and I'm going to incorporate some lyrics into this review because why not?). It's one of my favourite musicals. The book is, as is often the case, a much deeper and well-developed version of the same story, but I still recognised many of my favourite scenes from the stage production. I had actually expected the book to be more gentle and subdued than the musical because of the time it was written and to avoid controversy - especially as Hugo's opinion of the French judicial system during this time was made very clear - but this was not the case. is a nasty, gritty, haunting novel that doesn't fail to stay with you for a long time after putting it down.
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
It seems wrong to try and simplify the amazing plot of Les Miserables but I have to somehow fit all that greatness into this little review space. So, the main plot line of this story is about the ex-convict, Jean Valjean, who has been released from prison after serving nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread and then trying to escape. He comes away from all those years doing hard labour with anger running in his veins-- what kind of society sends a man to that disgusting fate for trying to quell his hunger? His thoughts turn to revenge and rebellion; he no longer even wants to try playing by the rules of a country which has done this to him. Until he is shown an act of kindness beyond his imagination by someone who breaks the cycle of anger and vengeance.
Lovely ladies ready for the call
Standing up or lying down or any way at all
Bargain prices up against the wall
Taking the little money and the vast amount of kindness he has been given, Jean Valjean slowly becomes an honest (and wealthy) man who helps those in need. But his new found way of life and the respect he has earned becomes threatened one day when the police officer, Javert, starts to recognise him. But that is just one story being told here.
Several stories run parallel to one another throughout this book and thye begin to entwine more and more as the novel progresses. Another is the story of Fantine and her illegitimate daughter - Cosette. Forced into prostitution in order to feed her child, Fantine is a woman who looks old for her age and no longer has the sparkle of joy in her eye that she enjoyed back when she was allowed to be naive. Cosette, meanwhile, is mistreated by the foster family who agree to take care of her while Fantine "works" in the nearby town. Other stories include that of Marius and Eponine, but there are many more.
The city goes to bed
And I can live inside my head
The above lyrics are from one of the musical's best known songs - On My Own - and are sung by one of the most fascinating characters of the novel, Eponine. Eponine's tale is an old one, one of unrequited love but it is far from cheesy. Marius describes her as an "unhappy soul" and nothing can be much more accurate. She is a sad, complex, and unfortunate character, which I suppose they all are in , but Eponine has a special place in my heart. But she is also far from weak. She has been toughened by life, made ugly by poverty, and she is ferociously independent. Yeah, I like her.
Here they talked of revolution
Here it was they lit the flame
Here they sang about tomorrow
And tomorrow never came.
This book also chronicles the events leading up to and including the Paris uprising of 1832 and the novel includes themes of revolution. It is a deeply thoughtful story that challenged attitudes held at the time in many ways. To use one example: a court of law was ready to sentence an innocent man to life imprisonment because he was slow and uneducated and therefore couldn't speak eloquently in his defence.
Perhaps this book is nothing more than an entertaining but dark story that Hugo wrote to grip and shock people, but to me this is a highly political novel that makes many statements about law and justice in France during the time period. I find it hard to dismiss Hugo's observations of the treatment of those who are poor and unintelligent as anything other than criticisms of society. But that is just me. I think I can say that you will be affected by this. Whether you will thank me for it or not, well, that depends on how easily you tolerate a depressing read. But I've saved my favourite and the most uplifting song for last:
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start when tomorrow comes!
[]
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In fact, it is the very opposite of fluffy happiness. It is a story about the lowest and darkest parts of French society in the first half of the nineteenth century. Hugo takes the reader on a 1200+ page journey around France and into the lives of criminals, prostitutes, those wasting away under the strain of poverty... and he provides food for thought on commonly-held ideas about the nature of law, justice, love, religion and politics. Not only this, but I can say that not one page of this giant bored me.
At the end of the day you're another day older
And that's all you can say for the life of the poor
I feel the need to mention the musical of (and I'm going to incorporate some lyrics into this review because why not?). It's one of my favourite musicals. The book is, as is often the case, a much deeper and well-developed version of the same story, but I still recognised many of my favourite scenes from the stage production. I had actually expected the book to be more gentle and subdued than the musical because of the time it was written and to avoid controversy - especially as Hugo's opinion of the French judicial system during this time was made very clear - but this was not the case. is a nasty, gritty, haunting novel that doesn't fail to stay with you for a long time after putting it down.
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
It seems wrong to try and simplify the amazing plot of Les Miserables but I have to somehow fit all that greatness into this little review space. So, the main plot line of this story is about the ex-convict, Jean Valjean, who has been released from prison after serving nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread and then trying to escape. He comes away from all those years doing hard labour with anger running in his veins-- what kind of society sends a man to that disgusting fate for trying to quell his hunger? His thoughts turn to revenge and rebellion; he no longer even wants to try playing by the rules of a country which has done this to him. Until he is shown an act of kindness beyond his imagination by someone who breaks the cycle of anger and vengeance.
Lovely ladies ready for the call
Standing up or lying down or any way at all
Bargain prices up against the wall
Taking the little money and the vast amount of kindness he has been given, Jean Valjean slowly becomes an honest (and wealthy) man who helps those in need. But his new found way of life and the respect he has earned becomes threatened one day when the police officer, Javert, starts to recognise him. But that is just one story being told here.
Several stories run parallel to one another throughout this book and thye begin to entwine more and more as the novel progresses. Another is the story of Fantine and her illegitimate daughter - Cosette. Forced into prostitution in order to feed her child, Fantine is a woman who looks old for her age and no longer has the sparkle of joy in her eye that she enjoyed back when she was allowed to be naive. Cosette, meanwhile, is mistreated by the foster family who agree to take care of her while Fantine "works" in the nearby town. Other stories include that of Marius and Eponine, but there are many more.
The city goes to bed
And I can live inside my head
The above lyrics are from one of the musical's best known songs - On My Own - and are sung by one of the most fascinating characters of the novel, Eponine. Eponine's tale is an old one, one of unrequited love but it is far from cheesy. Marius describes her as an "unhappy soul" and nothing can be much more accurate. She is a sad, complex, and unfortunate character, which I suppose they all are in , but Eponine has a special place in my heart. But she is also far from weak. She has been toughened by life, made ugly by poverty, and she is ferociously independent. Yeah, I like her.
Here they talked of revolution
Here it was they lit the flame
Here they sang about tomorrow
And tomorrow never came.
This book also chronicles the events leading up to and including the Paris uprising of 1832 and the novel includes themes of revolution. It is a deeply thoughtful story that challenged attitudes held at the time in many ways. To use one example: a court of law was ready to sentence an innocent man to life imprisonment because he was slow and uneducated and therefore couldn't speak eloquently in his defence.
Perhaps this book is nothing more than an entertaining but dark story that Hugo wrote to grip and shock people, but to me this is a highly political novel that makes many statements about law and justice in France during the time period. I find it hard to dismiss Hugo's observations of the treatment of those who are poor and unintelligent as anything other than criticisms of society. But that is just me. I think I can say that you will be affected by this. Whether you will thank me for it or not, well, that depends on how easily you tolerate a depressing read. But I've saved my favourite and the most uplifting song for last:
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start when tomorrow comes!
[]
| | | |
February 10, 2017
One of the "biggest" book I've ever read, and I remembered Mick Foley's "warning" about a big book.
"A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will enjoy it, or that it will have a happy ending. Kind of like going out with a girl, having to spend time every day with her - with absolutely no guarantee of nailing her in the end. No thanks."
Haha... Well, I took my chances reading this big book. I made my commitment, I spent my time everyday with this book ( about a month ) and what do I get?
Happiness and the joy of reading!
This book really nailed me, I have my happy ending! Woo Hooo!
Thank you very much for the "warning" Mister Foley
This book is amazing, lengthy in descriptions, compelling storyline and has influenced so many people.
Breaks my heart into pieces but somehow put it back together.
You want to be a better person after reading this book.
"He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being."
-Jean Valjean about Cossette-
"A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will enjoy it, or that it will have a happy ending. Kind of like going out with a girl, having to spend time every day with her - with absolutely no guarantee of nailing her in the end. No thanks."
Haha... Well, I took my chances reading this big book. I made my commitment, I spent my time everyday with this book ( about a month ) and what do I get?
Happiness and the joy of reading!
This book really nailed me, I have my happy ending! Woo Hooo!
Thank you very much for the "warning" Mister Foley
This book is amazing, lengthy in descriptions, compelling storyline and has influenced so many people.
Breaks my heart into pieces but somehow put it back together.
You want to be a better person after reading this book.
"He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being."
-Jean Valjean about Cossette-
July 8, 2020
Simplemente maravilloso.
He tardado m谩s de tres meses en realizar esta rese帽a. Desde que finalic茅 la lectura en marzo, estoy escribiendo distintos borradores para intentar expresar todo lo que sent铆 leyendo esta obra maestra. El problema, es que en mi cabeza tengo tantos pensamientos y reflexiones relacionados a este libro, que contarlos todos se ha convertido en un trabajo muy complicado. Les confieso, que la frustraci贸n por no estar satisfecho por lo que estaba escribiendo, casi me lleva a cancelar la realizaci贸n de esta rese帽a. Sin embargo, lo he logrado y por ello la siguiente rese帽a es el resultado de mi sexto intento.
Mi relaci贸n con Los Miserables inici贸 mal. En el a帽o 2019 fue el culpable de un bloqueo lector que tuve por varios meses. En ese tiempo, cre铆 que estaba preparado para leer esta historia y con mucha confianza lo intent茅, pero 150 p谩ginas despu茅s, aunque me estaba gustando no pude soportar el estilo de narraci贸n de Victor Hugo, donde sus descripciones fueron muy extensas. Fue agotador, complicado y me desconcentraba muy seguido con algunos cap铆tulos que parec铆an eternos. Estaba acostumbrado a leer historias sencillas, por lo que mi primer contacto con Los Miserables me dejo muy frustrado, sin confianza, con miedo a leer un texto extenso y con una renuncia como evidencia absoluta de mi derrota.
Con el transcurso de los meses, recuper茅 mi confianza y disciplina, al leer ejemplares como Apocalipsis de Stephen King o la saga completa de Harry Potter. Fue un tiempo tranquilo y sin turbulencias. Sin embargo, cuando el fin de a帽o se acerc贸, misteriosamente el t铆tulo de este libro me persegu铆a por todas partes: En Youtube, Facebook, y aqu铆 mismo en 欧宝娱乐, todos los d铆as ve铆a algo que me recordaba esa deuda pendiente que ten铆a con este libro. Entonces impulsado por las promesas decembrinas, respir茅 profundo y me promet铆 a m铆 mismo que sin importar lo que ocurriera, ten铆a que enfrentar el miedo a leer Los Miserables.
En enero comenc茅 mi reto. Ley茅ndolo solo los fines de semana, tomando apuntes, investigando los contextos hist贸ricos que se presentaban y teniendo mucha paciencia, arranque esta aventura que me llev贸 tres meses finalizar. 驴Sufr铆? Claro que s铆. Nuevamente, en algunos tramos sent铆 lo mismo que en mi primer intento, con la diferencia de que no leerlo diariamente me permit铆a recobrar la energ铆a necesaria para enfrentar las siguientes p谩ginas. A este paso, lento pero seguro, logr茅 comprender la forma como funcionaba este libro.
El funcionamiento consiste en que primero Victor Hugo nos relata con excesivos detalles el entorno. Pueden ser entre diez y setenta p谩ginas, donde aparecer谩 infinidad de informaci贸n relacionada a esa 茅poca. Desde nombres de nobles, costumbres, fechas festivas o sucesos del d铆a a d铆a, hasta explicarnos la historia de las alcantarillas, de un convento, de la batalla de Waterloo o la estructura de un barco. La mayor parte de esos detalles no hay necesidad de memorizarlos, porque cuando finalizamos esos cap铆tulos, comprendemos que esos fragmentos est谩n hechos para reforzar el contexto en el que se desarrollar谩 la siguiente parte del libro y no para torturarnos. Sin embargo, no se los niego, en esas secciones se sufre mucho, pero vale la pena resistir ese calvario porque despu茅s los acontecimientos que ocurren son espectaculares. Una vez nos adaptamos a ese estilo de libro que es poco com煤n en la actualidad, se ir谩 de nuestros pensamientos la idea de renunciar.
Como he sufrido tanto con este libro, quiero ofrecer algunos consejos a aquellos lectores que a煤n no han le铆do esta obra o que han desistido en el intento, para que se animen a intentar conocer uno de los mejores libros de la literatura universal. Esos consejos son:
- No lo lean diariamente: Este libro no est谩 hecho para acabarlo en un corto periodo de tiempo, por lo que intentarlo, provocar谩 que se saturen de informaci贸n y se cansaran inevitablemente. Es mejor leer Los Miserables altern谩ndolo con otras obras m谩s ligeras.
- Paciencia: Si creen que no la tienen es mejor que no lo lean, porque la necesitar谩n.
- Anotaciones: Es recomendable realizar anotaciones con nombres de los personajes u otros detalles, porque hay ocasiones donde se hace referencia a personajes que no nos acordaremos de 300 o 400 p谩ginas le铆das anteriormente.
- Investiguen sobre la historia de Francia: Victor Hugo da por hecho que conocemos los eventos hist贸ricos que nombra, por lo que quedaremos algo confundidos si desconocemos la historia de la Insurrecci贸n, de la monarqu铆a, de la Batalla de Waterloo, entre otros. Si conocemos la historia previamente, esas p谩ginas nos ayudar谩n a reflexionar sobre esos eventos ocurridos; en caso contrario, nos perderemos de esos mensajes de ense帽anza.
- L茅anlo a su propio ritmo: No importa si tardan tres meses, seis meses o un a帽o. No se apresuren y usen el tiempo necesario. Cuando les falte poco para finalizarlo ya no querr谩n terminarlo, yo s茅 porque se los digo.
- Experiencia: Si no han le铆do nunca un libro extenso que se acerque o supere las mil p谩ginas, no lo lean todav铆a. Primero ganen experiencia con otras obras y luego s铆 int茅ntenlo, de lo contrario no lo soportaran.
- 础诲补辫迟补肠颈贸苍: Si lo que buscan es una obra que tenga un ritmo vertiginoso, este libro no es para ustedes. Los Miserables se desarrolla lentamente, por lo que si quieren realmente leer este libro, tendr谩n que adaptarse al ritmo que nos ofrece el autor.
Como pueden notar el reto no es sencillo, pero si lo enfrentas y superas las dificultades, encontrar谩s un libro del que te enamorar谩s por toda la vida. Leer Los Miserables ha sido una experiencia maravillosa. Nunca imagin茅 que un libro llegar谩 a cautivarme tanto como ha ocurrido en esta ocasi贸n, y eso se debe a que Victor Hugo tiene una habilidad impresionante para transmitir sentimientos profundos a sus lectores. En la mayor parte del libro, sent铆 como si 茅l jugar谩 con mis sentimientos. Es un hechizo extra帽o que sentimos con sus palabras. Me hizo llorar, como cuando nos desahogamos; me hizo sentir amor, como al estar enamorados; me hizo sentir ira, como al ver una injusticia; me hizo sentir tristeza, como al ver el estado miserable en el que se encuentra un ser; me hizo sentir impotencia, al no poder ayudar a esos personajes que estaban sufriendo tanto. Me hizo sentir de todo.
Pero, 驴por qu茅 este libro nos produce tantos sentimientos? Eso se debe a la espectacular narraci贸n que Victor Hugo usa para hablar de temas como la pobreza, el matrimonio, la muerte, las rebeliones, las injusticias, las decisiones, la conciencia, los ladrones, el cambio de la maldad a la bondad, el amor, el sacrificio, etc. Usa una prosa tan dulce que en cualquier momento del libro, ya sea con una reflexi贸n, por alguna frase o por una escena que sucede, nos deja sorprendidos, conmovidos y un estado de sensibilidad impresionante. Leer este libro no hace sino provocar agitamiento en nuestro coraz贸n, as铆 como inter茅s en temas inesperados, como la etimolog铆a de las palabras o conocer sobre Napole贸n.
Fue un viaje tan largo, pero tan enriquecedor que no lo cambiar铆a por nada. Siento tanta gratitud hacia Victor Hugo por crear este libro, que lo 煤nico que siento que puedo hacer para honrar su nombre, es incentivar a los dem谩s a que lean por lo menos una vez en su vida esta obra literaria. Es imposible que sus corazones no se conmocionen ante escenas y palabras tan conmovedoras como las que nos presenta Victor Hugo. No se arrepentir谩n nunca de leerlo.
Tantos sentimientos y profundas reflexiones, Victor Hugo no las hace sentir contando la vida de Jean Valjean. 脡l es condenado a cinco a帽os por robarse un pan para sus sobrinos que ten铆an hambre. Sin embargo, esa condena resultar谩 siendo de diecinueve a帽os por intentos de fuga. El problema, surge cuando al terminar su condena se encuentra una sociedad que lo rechaza por ser un preso, hasta el punto de no venderle comida o darle posada, a pesar de poseer dinero. Despu茅s, el obispo Myriel, mejor llamado monse帽or Bienvenu, le cambiar谩 la vida transformando todo ese odio que siente por amor; lo que provocar谩, que Jean recorra un viaje cruel pero hermoso en el que se cruzar谩 con diferentes personajes que tambi茅n tienen historias llenas de sufrimiento pero muy bien desarrolladas, tanto as铆 que pueden ser de una persona real. Esos personajes ser谩n importantes no solo en el desarrollo de la trama, sino para ense帽arnos mucho sobre la vida. Los personajes se sienten tan reales que te acostumbras a ellos y a medida que avanzas quieres conocer m谩s de ellos, quieres que sean felices, quieres que no vuelvan a sufrir m谩s y quieres que quienes los persiguen o los odian, los dejen en paz y se alejen para siempre de ellos. Los personajes son perfectamente desarrollados. Entre esos personajes encontramos a Javert, Fantine, Cosette, Marius, Gavroche, los Th茅nardier, etc. Cada personaje es presentado en profundidad y algunos ser谩 imposible olvidarlos por el resto de nuestras vidas.
Quisiera contarles muchas de esas escenas que cautivan a cualquier lector, pero leer esas escenas personalmente, es el premio de nuestra paciencia y de nuestro esfuerzo por leer este gigantesco libro. Atr茅vete, int茅ntalo y descubre las maravillas que te podr谩 ofrecer esta obra literaria. La 煤nica advertencia que dir茅 es que el final te parte el alma y te deja varias semanas consternado; no dir茅 m谩s, el resto es mejor que lo descubra cada uno.
Me encant贸, me fascino, no s茅 si lo volver铆a a leer por su extensi贸n, pero no cambiar铆a ni un minuto de tiempo que he usado para leer este libro. Ha valido la pena cada segundo y me siento muy orgulloso por este gran logro que es terminar Los Miserables. Adicionalmente, declaro que personalmente el resultado de leer Los Miserables, ha sido perder el miedo a leer cualquier tipo de texto. Si ya le铆 Los Miserables puedo leer lo que sea. Libro s煤per recomendado.
He tardado m谩s de tres meses en realizar esta rese帽a. Desde que finalic茅 la lectura en marzo, estoy escribiendo distintos borradores para intentar expresar todo lo que sent铆 leyendo esta obra maestra. El problema, es que en mi cabeza tengo tantos pensamientos y reflexiones relacionados a este libro, que contarlos todos se ha convertido en un trabajo muy complicado. Les confieso, que la frustraci贸n por no estar satisfecho por lo que estaba escribiendo, casi me lleva a cancelar la realizaci贸n de esta rese帽a. Sin embargo, lo he logrado y por ello la siguiente rese帽a es el resultado de mi sexto intento.
Mi relaci贸n con Los Miserables inici贸 mal. En el a帽o 2019 fue el culpable de un bloqueo lector que tuve por varios meses. En ese tiempo, cre铆 que estaba preparado para leer esta historia y con mucha confianza lo intent茅, pero 150 p谩ginas despu茅s, aunque me estaba gustando no pude soportar el estilo de narraci贸n de Victor Hugo, donde sus descripciones fueron muy extensas. Fue agotador, complicado y me desconcentraba muy seguido con algunos cap铆tulos que parec铆an eternos. Estaba acostumbrado a leer historias sencillas, por lo que mi primer contacto con Los Miserables me dejo muy frustrado, sin confianza, con miedo a leer un texto extenso y con una renuncia como evidencia absoluta de mi derrota.
Con el transcurso de los meses, recuper茅 mi confianza y disciplina, al leer ejemplares como Apocalipsis de Stephen King o la saga completa de Harry Potter. Fue un tiempo tranquilo y sin turbulencias. Sin embargo, cuando el fin de a帽o se acerc贸, misteriosamente el t铆tulo de este libro me persegu铆a por todas partes: En Youtube, Facebook, y aqu铆 mismo en 欧宝娱乐, todos los d铆as ve铆a algo que me recordaba esa deuda pendiente que ten铆a con este libro. Entonces impulsado por las promesas decembrinas, respir茅 profundo y me promet铆 a m铆 mismo que sin importar lo que ocurriera, ten铆a que enfrentar el miedo a leer Los Miserables.
En enero comenc茅 mi reto. Ley茅ndolo solo los fines de semana, tomando apuntes, investigando los contextos hist贸ricos que se presentaban y teniendo mucha paciencia, arranque esta aventura que me llev贸 tres meses finalizar. 驴Sufr铆? Claro que s铆. Nuevamente, en algunos tramos sent铆 lo mismo que en mi primer intento, con la diferencia de que no leerlo diariamente me permit铆a recobrar la energ铆a necesaria para enfrentar las siguientes p谩ginas. A este paso, lento pero seguro, logr茅 comprender la forma como funcionaba este libro.
El funcionamiento consiste en que primero Victor Hugo nos relata con excesivos detalles el entorno. Pueden ser entre diez y setenta p谩ginas, donde aparecer谩 infinidad de informaci贸n relacionada a esa 茅poca. Desde nombres de nobles, costumbres, fechas festivas o sucesos del d铆a a d铆a, hasta explicarnos la historia de las alcantarillas, de un convento, de la batalla de Waterloo o la estructura de un barco. La mayor parte de esos detalles no hay necesidad de memorizarlos, porque cuando finalizamos esos cap铆tulos, comprendemos que esos fragmentos est谩n hechos para reforzar el contexto en el que se desarrollar谩 la siguiente parte del libro y no para torturarnos. Sin embargo, no se los niego, en esas secciones se sufre mucho, pero vale la pena resistir ese calvario porque despu茅s los acontecimientos que ocurren son espectaculares. Una vez nos adaptamos a ese estilo de libro que es poco com煤n en la actualidad, se ir谩 de nuestros pensamientos la idea de renunciar.
Como he sufrido tanto con este libro, quiero ofrecer algunos consejos a aquellos lectores que a煤n no han le铆do esta obra o que han desistido en el intento, para que se animen a intentar conocer uno de los mejores libros de la literatura universal. Esos consejos son:
- No lo lean diariamente: Este libro no est谩 hecho para acabarlo en un corto periodo de tiempo, por lo que intentarlo, provocar谩 que se saturen de informaci贸n y se cansaran inevitablemente. Es mejor leer Los Miserables altern谩ndolo con otras obras m谩s ligeras.
- Paciencia: Si creen que no la tienen es mejor que no lo lean, porque la necesitar谩n.
- Anotaciones: Es recomendable realizar anotaciones con nombres de los personajes u otros detalles, porque hay ocasiones donde se hace referencia a personajes que no nos acordaremos de 300 o 400 p谩ginas le铆das anteriormente.
- Investiguen sobre la historia de Francia: Victor Hugo da por hecho que conocemos los eventos hist贸ricos que nombra, por lo que quedaremos algo confundidos si desconocemos la historia de la Insurrecci贸n, de la monarqu铆a, de la Batalla de Waterloo, entre otros. Si conocemos la historia previamente, esas p谩ginas nos ayudar谩n a reflexionar sobre esos eventos ocurridos; en caso contrario, nos perderemos de esos mensajes de ense帽anza.
- L茅anlo a su propio ritmo: No importa si tardan tres meses, seis meses o un a帽o. No se apresuren y usen el tiempo necesario. Cuando les falte poco para finalizarlo ya no querr谩n terminarlo, yo s茅 porque se los digo.
- Experiencia: Si no han le铆do nunca un libro extenso que se acerque o supere las mil p谩ginas, no lo lean todav铆a. Primero ganen experiencia con otras obras y luego s铆 int茅ntenlo, de lo contrario no lo soportaran.
- 础诲补辫迟补肠颈贸苍: Si lo que buscan es una obra que tenga un ritmo vertiginoso, este libro no es para ustedes. Los Miserables se desarrolla lentamente, por lo que si quieren realmente leer este libro, tendr谩n que adaptarse al ritmo que nos ofrece el autor.
Como pueden notar el reto no es sencillo, pero si lo enfrentas y superas las dificultades, encontrar谩s un libro del que te enamorar谩s por toda la vida. Leer Los Miserables ha sido una experiencia maravillosa. Nunca imagin茅 que un libro llegar谩 a cautivarme tanto como ha ocurrido en esta ocasi贸n, y eso se debe a que Victor Hugo tiene una habilidad impresionante para transmitir sentimientos profundos a sus lectores. En la mayor parte del libro, sent铆 como si 茅l jugar谩 con mis sentimientos. Es un hechizo extra帽o que sentimos con sus palabras. Me hizo llorar, como cuando nos desahogamos; me hizo sentir amor, como al estar enamorados; me hizo sentir ira, como al ver una injusticia; me hizo sentir tristeza, como al ver el estado miserable en el que se encuentra un ser; me hizo sentir impotencia, al no poder ayudar a esos personajes que estaban sufriendo tanto. Me hizo sentir de todo.
Pero, 驴por qu茅 este libro nos produce tantos sentimientos? Eso se debe a la espectacular narraci贸n que Victor Hugo usa para hablar de temas como la pobreza, el matrimonio, la muerte, las rebeliones, las injusticias, las decisiones, la conciencia, los ladrones, el cambio de la maldad a la bondad, el amor, el sacrificio, etc. Usa una prosa tan dulce que en cualquier momento del libro, ya sea con una reflexi贸n, por alguna frase o por una escena que sucede, nos deja sorprendidos, conmovidos y un estado de sensibilidad impresionante. Leer este libro no hace sino provocar agitamiento en nuestro coraz贸n, as铆 como inter茅s en temas inesperados, como la etimolog铆a de las palabras o conocer sobre Napole贸n.
Fue un viaje tan largo, pero tan enriquecedor que no lo cambiar铆a por nada. Siento tanta gratitud hacia Victor Hugo por crear este libro, que lo 煤nico que siento que puedo hacer para honrar su nombre, es incentivar a los dem谩s a que lean por lo menos una vez en su vida esta obra literaria. Es imposible que sus corazones no se conmocionen ante escenas y palabras tan conmovedoras como las que nos presenta Victor Hugo. No se arrepentir谩n nunca de leerlo.
Tantos sentimientos y profundas reflexiones, Victor Hugo no las hace sentir contando la vida de Jean Valjean. 脡l es condenado a cinco a帽os por robarse un pan para sus sobrinos que ten铆an hambre. Sin embargo, esa condena resultar谩 siendo de diecinueve a帽os por intentos de fuga. El problema, surge cuando al terminar su condena se encuentra una sociedad que lo rechaza por ser un preso, hasta el punto de no venderle comida o darle posada, a pesar de poseer dinero. Despu茅s, el obispo Myriel, mejor llamado monse帽or Bienvenu, le cambiar谩 la vida transformando todo ese odio que siente por amor; lo que provocar谩, que Jean recorra un viaje cruel pero hermoso en el que se cruzar谩 con diferentes personajes que tambi茅n tienen historias llenas de sufrimiento pero muy bien desarrolladas, tanto as铆 que pueden ser de una persona real. Esos personajes ser谩n importantes no solo en el desarrollo de la trama, sino para ense帽arnos mucho sobre la vida. Los personajes se sienten tan reales que te acostumbras a ellos y a medida que avanzas quieres conocer m谩s de ellos, quieres que sean felices, quieres que no vuelvan a sufrir m谩s y quieres que quienes los persiguen o los odian, los dejen en paz y se alejen para siempre de ellos. Los personajes son perfectamente desarrollados. Entre esos personajes encontramos a Javert, Fantine, Cosette, Marius, Gavroche, los Th茅nardier, etc. Cada personaje es presentado en profundidad y algunos ser谩 imposible olvidarlos por el resto de nuestras vidas.
Quisiera contarles muchas de esas escenas que cautivan a cualquier lector, pero leer esas escenas personalmente, es el premio de nuestra paciencia y de nuestro esfuerzo por leer este gigantesco libro. Atr茅vete, int茅ntalo y descubre las maravillas que te podr谩 ofrecer esta obra literaria. La 煤nica advertencia que dir茅 es que el final te parte el alma y te deja varias semanas consternado; no dir茅 m谩s, el resto es mejor que lo descubra cada uno.
Me encant贸, me fascino, no s茅 si lo volver铆a a leer por su extensi贸n, pero no cambiar铆a ni un minuto de tiempo que he usado para leer este libro. Ha valido la pena cada segundo y me siento muy orgulloso por este gran logro que es terminar Los Miserables. Adicionalmente, declaro que personalmente el resultado de leer Los Miserables, ha sido perder el miedo a leer cualquier tipo de texto. Si ya le铆 Los Miserables puedo leer lo que sea. Libro s煤per recomendado.
December 31, 2022
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賴匕賴 丕賱賲賱丨賲丞 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷丞 丕賱賮賱爻賮賷丞 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺賷丞 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳賷丞 賴賶 丕丨丿賶 丕胤賵賱 丕賱賲賱丕丨賲 丕賱丕丿亘賷丞 賮氐賵賱賴丕 亘毓丿丿 丕賷丕賲 丕賱爻賳丞 365 賵 鬲賲 賳卮乇賴丕 賮賷 48 噩夭亍 毓賳丿 氐丿賵乇賴丕 賮賷 1862 氐賮丨丕鬲賴丕 亘丕賱賮乇賳爻賷丞 鬲賯丕乇亘 丕賱丕賱賮賷賳 ..賵 丕賱噩賲賷賱 丕賳賳丕 夭賲丕賳 賱賲 賳賰賳 賳毓乇賮 丕賳賳丕 賳賯乇丕賴丕 賲賱禺氐丞..亘賱 毓賳丿賲丕 賳噩丿 丕賳賳丕 賯乇兀賳丕 400氐賮丨丞 賳毓鬲賯丿 丕賳 丕賳噩丕夭賳丕 亘丕賴乇丕賻 ..賵 賱賰賳賴丕 爻鬲馗賱 毓賳 噩丿丕乇丞 丕丨丿賶 丕賴賲 毓卮乇 賰賱丕爻賷賰賷丕鬲 毓丕賱賲賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲毓丿賰 亘丿賲賵毓 睾夭賷乇丞
賮賰鬲賵乇 賴賵噩賵: 賰賳鬲 毓亘賯乇賷丕 賮賷 丕毓鬲乇丕囟賰 毓賱賶 噩賲賵丿 丕賱賯丕賳賵賳 丕賱賮乇賳爻賷 亘卮賰賱 賱丕 賷賳爻賶
亘丐爻丕亍賰 亘孬賵丕 亘毓囟 丕賱丕賲賱 賮賷 丕賱賳賮賵爻
賳賱鬲 賮賷 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 鬲賰乇賷賲賰 丕賱賱丕卅賯 亘毓丿胤賵賱 賳賮賷
賱賰賳 丨鬲賶 毓賲乇賶 賴匕丕 賱賱丕爻賮 賲丕夭賱鬲 賮賷 賲乇丨賱丞:"禺賷乇丕 鬲毓賲賱 卮乇 鬲賱賯賶" 賲丕 夭賱鬲 兀賱賯賶 賲賳 賷氐賳毓賵賳 賱賷 噩丨賷賲丕 毓賱賶 丕賱丕乇囟
賵 丕賱夭賲賳 賷丐賰丿 賱賷 丕賳丕 賵噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳 兀賳: 賰孬賷乇賵賳 毓賱賶 賯賷丿 丕賱丨賷丕丞 ..賯賱賷賱賵賳 毓賱賷 賯賷丿 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳賷丞
賮賷 賰賱 丕賳賵丕毓"丕賱爻噩賳"丕賱鬲賷 賳乇鬲賲賷 賵乇丕亍 賯囟亘丕賳賴丕"亘丕禺鬲賷丕乇賳丕"爻賷夭丿丕丿 馗賱丕賲 丕乇賵丕丨賳丕
賮賲丕 亘丕賱賰 賱賵 爻噩賳鬲 19爻賳丞 賱爻乇賯鬲賰 乇睾賷賮 禺亘夭責
鈽嗀娯� 鬲毓賲賱 卮乇 鬲賱賯賶鈽�
丨爻賳丕 賴匕賴 丕丨丿賶 丕賱賰賱丕爻賷賰賷丕鬲 丕賱毓鬲賷丿丞 丕賱鬲賷 丕丨賯丿 毓賱賷賴丕 賱丕賳賴丕"亘賵馗鬲 丿賲丕睾賷"..毓賳丿賲丕 鬲賯乇兀 毓賷賵賳 丕賱丕丿亘 丕賱毓丕賱賲賷 賯亘賱 丕賱毓卮乇賷賳 "爻鬲乇亘賷賰"丨乇賮賷丕..爻鬲卮賰賱 賲亘丕丿亍賰 賲賴賲丕 鬲賴乇亘鬲 ..爻鬲氐丿賯賴丕 賱賱丕爻賮
*賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賳丕. .爻賳鬲亘丕丿賱 丕賱丕丿賵丕乇..丿賵賲丕鈽�
噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳 卮丕亘 亘乇賷亍 爻賵賶 賷鬲丨賵賱 丕賱賶 賲噩乇賲 丌孬賲 賲丨乇賵賲 賲賳 鬲毓丕胤賮 丕賱賯囟丕丞 賮賷爻噩賳 賱鬲爻毓丞 毓卮乇 毓丕賲 賱爻乇賯鬲賴 乇睾賷賮 禺亘夭.. 賷禺乇噩 賱賱丿賳賷丕 賲丨胤賲丕 賱賷賱丕賯賷 丕賱賴賵丕賳 賲賳 丕賴賱 亘賱丿鬲賴..毓丿丕 丕賱賯爻 賲賷乇賷賱 丕賱匕賷 賷丨爻賳 丕賱賷賴 賵 賱賰賳 賲乇丕乇丞 賮丕賱噩丕賳 鬲胤賮丨 賵 賷乇丿 丕賱丕丨爻丕賳 亘丕賱丕爻丕亍丞 賵 賷爻乇賯 賲賳賴 卮賲毓丿丕賳丕鬲 賮囟賷丞 賵 賷鬲賲 丕賱賯亘囟 毓賱賷賴
賱賰賳 丕賱賯爻 賷鬲毓丕胤賮 賲毓賴貨賵 賷丿毓賷 丕賳賴 丕毓胤丕賴 丕賱賮囟賷丕鬲 賴丿賷丞
賵 賴賳丕 賷匕賴賱 賮丕賱噩丕賳 賵 賷鬲丨賵賱 鬲賲丕賲丕 亘毓丿 "孬丕賳賷" 亘丕丿乇丞 毓胤賮 賷鬲賱賯丕賴丕
賵 丕賱賮囟丞 鬲乇賲夭 賱胤亘賷毓丞 賲毓丿賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳
丨爻賳丕 貨 賲丨馗賵馗 丕賳鬲 賷丕 賲賷乇賷賱
賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賳丕 爻賳賰賵賳 丕丨賷丕賳丕 賲賷乇賷賱 賵 丕丨賷丕賳丕 賮丕賱噩丕賳貨 丨爻亘 丕賯丿丕乇賳丕 丕丨賷丕賳丕 爻鬲賰賵賳 毓丕丿賱丕 賵丕丨賷丕賳丕 賲馗賱賵賲丕"丕賱馗丕賱賲賵賳 賱丕 賷賯乇丕賵賳 丕賱亘丐爻丕亍 丕亘丿丕"..賱賰賳 賰賱賳丕 爻賳賱鬲賯賷 賲賳 賷毓賱賲賳丕 賰賱 丨乇賮 賲賳 噩賲賱丞 "丕鬲賯賷 卮乇 賲賳 丕丨爻賳鬲 丕賱賷賴"丕
丕賵 爻賳毓賲賱 丕賱禺賷乇 賵 賳乇賲賷賴 賮賷 丕賱亘丨乇
賵 賮賷 乇丨賱丞 鬲丨賵賱 賮丕賱噩丕賳: 賱賲丕丿賷賱丕賷賳 爻賷鬲丨賵賱 賮毓賱 丕賱禺賷乇 賱毓丿賵賶 爻賳賯丕亘賱 賰賵夭賷鬲 賵 賮丕賳鬲丕賷賳 賵 噩丕賮賷乇. .乇噩丕賱 爻賱胤丞 賵毓賲丕賱 賵 亘賳丕鬲 賱賷賱 賵 毓卮乇丕鬲 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 亘賱丕 賲亘丕賱睾丞 賱丕 賷噩賲毓 亘賷賳賴丕 爻賵賶 :丕賱亘丐爻 賴賳丕賰 賲賳 賷賮乇囟賵賳賴 賵 賴賳丕賰 賲賳 賷毓賷卮賵賳賴
賴匕賴 丕賱賲賱丨賲丞 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷丞 丕賱賮賱爻賮賷丞 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺賷丞 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳賷丞 賴賶 丕丨丿賶 丕胤賵賱 丕賱賲賱丕丨賲 丕賱丕丿亘賷丞 賮氐賵賱賴丕 亘毓丿丿 丕賷丕賲 丕賱爻賳丞 365 賵 鬲賲 賳卮乇賴丕 賮賷 48 噩夭亍 毓賳丿 氐丿賵乇賴丕 賮賷 1862 氐賮丨丕鬲賴丕 亘丕賱賮乇賳爻賷丞 鬲賯丕乇亘 丕賱丕賱賮賷賳 ..賵 丕賱噩賲賷賱 丕賳賳丕 夭賲丕賳 賱賲 賳賰賳 賳毓乇賮 丕賳賳丕 賳賯乇丕賴丕 賲賱禺氐丞..亘賱 毓賳丿賲丕 賳噩丿 丕賳賳丕 賯乇兀賳丕 400氐賮丨丞 賳毓鬲賯丿 丕賳 丕賳噩丕夭賳丕 亘丕賴乇丕賻 ..賵 賱賰賳賴丕 爻鬲馗賱 毓賳 噩丿丕乇丞 丕丨丿賶 丕賴賲 毓卮乇 賰賱丕爻賷賰賷丕鬲 毓丕賱賲賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲毓丿賰 亘丿賲賵毓 睾夭賷乇丞
賮賰鬲賵乇 賴賵噩賵: 賰賳鬲 毓亘賯乇賷丕 賮賷 丕毓鬲乇丕囟賰 毓賱賶 噩賲賵丿 丕賱賯丕賳賵賳 丕賱賮乇賳爻賷 亘卮賰賱 賱丕 賷賳爻賶
亘丐爻丕亍賰 亘孬賵丕 亘毓囟 丕賱丕賲賱 賮賷 丕賱賳賮賵爻
賳賱鬲 賮賷 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 鬲賰乇賷賲賰 丕賱賱丕卅賯 亘毓丿胤賵賱 賳賮賷
賱賰賳 丨鬲賶 毓賲乇賶 賴匕丕 賱賱丕爻賮 賲丕夭賱鬲 賮賷 賲乇丨賱丞:"禺賷乇丕 鬲毓賲賱 卮乇 鬲賱賯賶" 賲丕 夭賱鬲 兀賱賯賶 賲賳 賷氐賳毓賵賳 賱賷 噩丨賷賲丕 毓賱賶 丕賱丕乇囟
賵 丕賱夭賲賳 賷丐賰丿 賱賷 丕賳丕 賵噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳 兀賳: 賰孬賷乇賵賳 毓賱賶 賯賷丿 丕賱丨賷丕丞 ..賯賱賷賱賵賳 毓賱賷 賯賷丿 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳賷丞
October 17, 2024
Javert: those who falter and those who fall must pay the price!
Valjean: lol you can Les Mis me with that shit.
The first year I worked at the bookstore I very excitedly dressed as Enjolras to work the Halloween night shift but nobody came so I just sat alone with all the empty chairs and empty tables and read this book uninterrupted for 5 hours. Ideal work day to be honest.
But this book is wild. Epic in scope and casting a critical eye on the mistreatment of the poor with the occasional essay on sewer systems thrown in. Unforgettable and undeniably a lasting classic, musical or not, and Hugo himself explains why the book should continue to be read as a sharp statement against poverty and the systems that perpetuate it:
This was a very personal book for Hugo, who had walked out into the streets of Paris and stumbled right into the gunfire of the which makes up the latter half of the novel. Hugo kept notebooks into which he recorded all he say and drew inspiration for his many characters from people and events he witnessed. Though most fascinating to me is that Jean Valjean (and to a small extent, Javert) take inspiration from , who, upon his release from prison, formed the first private detective agency and is known as the father of criminology. would also be inspired by Vidocq for his . I sort of love how you can tell when Hugo gets excited by a topic and wants to tell you everything he learned about it (sewers, man, so much about the sewers), or adds little bits of his own life into the story (he had an open marriage and commemorates the date he first slept with his mistress, Juliet Drouet, by making it the date of Marius and Cosette's wedding). A big book, but one that is always well worth the read.
Valjean: lol you can Les Mis me with that shit.
The first year I worked at the bookstore I very excitedly dressed as Enjolras to work the Halloween night shift but nobody came so I just sat alone with all the empty chairs and empty tables and read this book uninterrupted for 5 hours. Ideal work day to be honest.
But this book is wild. Epic in scope and casting a critical eye on the mistreatment of the poor with the occasional essay on sewer systems thrown in. Unforgettable and undeniably a lasting classic, musical or not, and Hugo himself explains why the book should continue to be read as a sharp statement against poverty and the systems that perpetuate it:
'So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age 鈥� the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night 鈥� are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.'
This was a very personal book for Hugo, who had walked out into the streets of Paris and stumbled right into the gunfire of the which makes up the latter half of the novel. Hugo kept notebooks into which he recorded all he say and drew inspiration for his many characters from people and events he witnessed. Though most fascinating to me is that Jean Valjean (and to a small extent, Javert) take inspiration from , who, upon his release from prison, formed the first private detective agency and is known as the father of criminology. would also be inspired by Vidocq for his . I sort of love how you can tell when Hugo gets excited by a topic and wants to tell you everything he learned about it (sewers, man, so much about the sewers), or adds little bits of his own life into the story (he had an open marriage and commemorates the date he first slept with his mistress, Juliet Drouet, by making it the date of Marius and Cosette's wedding). A big book, but one that is always well worth the read.
August 3, 2021
(Book 873 from 1001 Books) - Les Mis茅rables, Victor Hugo
Les Mis茅rables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title.
However, several alternatives have been used, including The Miserables, The Wretched, The Miserable Ones, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, The Victims and The Dispossessed.
Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption.
毓賳賵丕賳賴丕蹖 趩丕倬 卮丿賴 丿乇 丕蹖乇丕賳: 芦跇丕賳 賵丕賱跇丕賳禄貨 芦亘蹖賳賵丕蹖丕賳禄貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 賵蹖讴鬲賵乇 賴賵诏賵貨 丕賳鬲卮丕乇丕鬲蹖賴丕: (賲胤亘毓賴 丕蹖乇丕賳貙 噩丕賵蹖丿丕賳貙 亘丿乇賯賴 噩丕賵蹖丿丕賳貙 丕賲蹖乇讴亘蹖乇貙 鬲賵爻賳貙 賳诏鬲賴貙 诏賳蹖賳賴貙 賮賳賵賳貙 賯氐賴 噩賴丕賳 賳賲丕貙 爻賲蹖乇貙 丌爻賵貙 丕賮賯貙 賴賮鬲 爻賳诏貙 倬蹖乇賵夭貙 爻讴賴貙 丕爻亘 爻賮蹖丿貙 爻乇賵卮貙 賲卮乇 賯乇賴貙 丿亘蹖乇貙 诏丕噩貙 倬丕乇爻賴貙 丌亘丕賳 賲賴乇貙 爻倬蹖丿賴貙 賲毓乇丕噩蹖貙 鬲賵爻賳貙 賮賳賵賳貙 亘賳蹖丕丿) 丕丿亘蹖丕鬲 賮乇丕賳爻賴貨 鬲丕乇蹖禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮: 丿乇 賲丕賴 賲丕乇爻 爻丕賱 1966賲蹖賱丕丿蹖貨 丌禺乇蹖賳 亘丕乇 丿乇 賲丕賴 跇賵卅賳 爻丕賱 2006賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
毓賳賵丕賳: 亘蹖賳賵丕蹖丕賳貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 賵蹖讴鬲賵乇 賴賵诏賵貨 賲鬲乇噩賲: 丨爻蹖賳賯賱蹖 賲爻鬲毓丕賳貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賲胤亘毓賴 丕蹖乇丕賳 倬丕賵乇賯蹖貙 1310貙 爻倬爻 亘賴 氐賵乇鬲 讴鬲丕亘 丿乇 丿賴 噩賱丿貙 賵 爻倬爻 丿乇 倬賳噩 噩賱丿貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 噩丕賵蹖丿丕賳貙 1331貙 丿乇 丿賵 噩賱丿貙 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 丕賲蹖乇讴亘蹖乇貙 1349貨 丿乇 丿賵 噩賱丿 1647氐貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 1363貨 趩丕倬 趩賴丕乇丿賴賲 1370貨 卮丕賳夭丿賴賲 1382貨 卮丕亘讴 丿賵乇賴 9640004189貨 賴賮丿賴賲 1384貨 賴噩丿賴賲 1387貨 卮丕亘讴 丿賵乇賴 丿賵噩賱丿蹖 9789640004180貨 賳賵夭丿賴賲 1388貨 亘蹖爻鬲賲 1390貨 亘蹖爻鬲 賵 爻賵賲 1391貨 亘蹖爻鬲 賵 趩賴丕乇賲 1392貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 亘丿乇賯賴 噩丕賵蹖丿丕賳貙 1386貙 丿乇 丿賵 噩賱丿貙 賲賵囟賵毓 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賴丕蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿诏丕賳 賮乇丕賳爻賴 - 爻丿賴 19賲
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鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 05/06/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 11/05/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
Les Mis茅rables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title.
However, several alternatives have been used, including The Miserables, The Wretched, The Miserable Ones, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, The Victims and The Dispossessed.
Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption.
毓賳賵丕賳賴丕蹖 趩丕倬 卮丿賴 丿乇 丕蹖乇丕賳: 芦跇丕賳 賵丕賱跇丕賳禄貨 芦亘蹖賳賵丕蹖丕賳禄貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 賵蹖讴鬲賵乇 賴賵诏賵貨 丕賳鬲卮丕乇丕鬲蹖賴丕: (賲胤亘毓賴 丕蹖乇丕賳貙 噩丕賵蹖丿丕賳貙 亘丿乇賯賴 噩丕賵蹖丿丕賳貙 丕賲蹖乇讴亘蹖乇貙 鬲賵爻賳貙 賳诏鬲賴貙 诏賳蹖賳賴貙 賮賳賵賳貙 賯氐賴 噩賴丕賳 賳賲丕貙 爻賲蹖乇貙 丌爻賵貙 丕賮賯貙 賴賮鬲 爻賳诏貙 倬蹖乇賵夭貙 爻讴賴貙 丕爻亘 爻賮蹖丿貙 爻乇賵卮貙 賲卮乇 賯乇賴貙 丿亘蹖乇貙 诏丕噩貙 倬丕乇爻賴貙 丌亘丕賳 賲賴乇貙 爻倬蹖丿賴貙 賲毓乇丕噩蹖貙 鬲賵爻賳貙 賮賳賵賳貙 亘賳蹖丕丿) 丕丿亘蹖丕鬲 賮乇丕賳爻賴貨 鬲丕乇蹖禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮: 丿乇 賲丕賴 賲丕乇爻 爻丕賱 1966賲蹖賱丕丿蹖貨 丌禺乇蹖賳 亘丕乇 丿乇 賲丕賴 跇賵卅賳 爻丕賱 2006賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
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鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 05/06/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 11/05/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
August 11, 2021
(Book 873 from 1001 books) - Les Mis茅rables = The Miserables, Victor Hugo
Les Mis茅rables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.
In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title.
However, several alternatives have been used, including The Miserables, The Wretched, The Miserable Ones, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, The Victims and The Dispossessed.
Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption.
亘蹖賳賵丕蹖丕賳 - 賵蹖讴鬲賵乇 賴賵诏賵 (噩丕賵蹖丿丕賳 貙 丕賲蹖乇讴亘蹖乇 貙 鬲賵爻賳) 丕丿亘蹖丕鬲 賮乇丕賳爻賴貨 鬲丕乇蹖禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮: 賲丕賴 賲丕乇爻 爻丕賱 1966賲蹖賱丕丿蹖貙 亘丕乇 丿蹖诏乇 丿乇 賲丕賴 賲丕乇爻 爻丕賱2006賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
毓賳賵丕賳: 亘蹖賳賵丕蹖丕賳貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 賵蹖讴鬲賵乇 賴賵诏賵貨 賲鬲乇噩賲: 丨爻蹖賳賯賱蹖 賲爻鬲毓丕賳貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賲胤亘毓賴 丕蹖乇丕賳 倬丕賵乇賯蹖貙 1310貙 爻倬爻 亘賴 氐賵乇鬲 讴鬲丕亘 丿乇 丿賴 噩賱丿 賵 爻倬爻 丿乇 倬賳噩 噩賱丿貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 噩丕賵蹖丿丕賳貙 1331貙 丿乇 丿賵 噩賱丿貙 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 丕賲蹖乇讴亘蹖乇貙 1349貨 丿乇 丿賵 噩賱丿 1647氐貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 1363貨 趩丕倬 趩賴丕乇丿賴賲 1370貨 卮丕賳夭丿賴賲 1382貨 卮丕亘讴 丿賵乇賴 9640004189貨 賴賮丿賴賲 1384貨 賴噩丿賴賲 1387貨 卮丕亘讴 丿賵乇賴 丿賵噩賱丿蹖 9789640004180貨 賳賵夭丿賴賲 1388貨 亘蹖爻鬲賲 1390貨 亘蹖爻鬲 賵 爻賵賲 1391貨 亘蹖爻鬲 賵 趩賴丕乇賲 1392貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 亘丿乇賯賴 噩丕賵蹖丿丕賳貙 1386貙 丿乇 丿賵 噩賱丿貙 賲賵囟賵毓: 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賴丕蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿诏丕賳 賮乇丕賳爻賵蹖 - 爻丿賴 19賲
賲鬲乇噩賲蹖賳 丿蹖诏乇 賲鬲賳 讴丕賲賱 禺丕賳賲賴丕 賵 丌賯丕蹖丕賳: 芦賳爻乇蹖賳 鬲賵賱丕蹖蹖 賵 賳丕賴蹖丿 賲賱讴賵鬲蹖貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賳诏丕賴貙 1393貙 丿乇 丿賵 噩賱丿貙 卮丕亘讴 丿賵乇賴 9789643519568禄貨 芦毓賳丕蹖鬲 丕賱锟斤拷賴 卮讴蹖亘丕倬賵乇 丿乇 丿賵 噩賱丿貙 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 诏賳蹖賳賴貙 1362貙 丿乇 丿賵 噩賱丿貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賮賳賵賳貙 1368貙 丿乇 丿賵 噩賱丿貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賯氐賴 噩賴丕賳 賳賲丕 1380貙 丿乇 丿賵 噩賱丿 賵 962氐禄貨 芦讴蹖賵賲乇孬 倬丕乇爻丕蹖貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 爻賲蹖乇貙 1389貨 丿乇 倬賳噩 噩賱丿貙 卮丕亘讴 丿賵乇賴 9789642200474禄貨 芦賲丨賲丿 賲噩賱爻蹖貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賳卮乇 丿賳蹖丕蹖 賳賵貙 1380貙 丿乇 趩賴丕乇 噩賱丿 (噩賱丿 蹖讴 - 賮丕賳鬲蹖賳貙 噩賱丿 丿賵 - 賮丕賳鬲蹖賳貙 噩賱丿 爻賴 - 賲丕乇蹖賵爻貙 噩賱丿 趩賴丕乇 - 跇丕賳 賵丕賱跇丕賳)貨 趩丕倬 爻賵賲 1390禄貨 芦賲乇囟蹖賴 氐丕丿賯蹖 夭丕丿賴貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 丌爻賵貙 1395貙 丿乇 丿賵 噩賱丿貨 卮丕亘讴 丿賵乇賴 9786007228982禄貨 芦賲蹖賳丕 丨爻蹖賳蹖貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賮乇丕乇賵蹖貙 1393貙 丿乇 丿賵 噩賱丿貙 卮丕亘讴 丿賵乇賴 9786005947434禄貨 芦賲丨爻賳 爻賱蹖賲丕賳蹖貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 丕賮賯貙 1388貙 丿乇 丿賵 噩賱丿貨 趩丕倬 丿賵賲 1389貨 趩丕倬 卮卮賲 1392禄貨 芦賵丨蹖丿賴 卮讴乇蹖貙 诏乇诏丕賳貙 锟斤拷賮鬲 爻賳诏貙 1395貙 丿乇 丿賵 噩賱丿禄貨
賲鬲乇噩賲蹖賳 丿蹖诏乇 賲鬲賳 禺賱丕氐賴 卮丿賴: 芦诏蹖賵乇诏蹖爻 丌賯丕爻蹖貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 倬蹖乇賵夭貙 1342貙 丿乇 335氐貙 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 爻讴賴貙 1362貙 丿乇 335氐禄貨 芦賮乇蹖丿賵賳 讴丕乇貙 丕爻亘 爻賮蹖丿貙 1345貙 丿乇 480氐禄貨 芦賲丨賲丿亘丕賯乇 倬蹖乇賵夭蹖貙 丿乇 340氐貙 爻乇賵卮貙 1368禄貨 芦亘賴乇賵夭 睾乇蹖亘 倬賵乇貙 賳卮乇 賯乇賴貙 1385貙 丿乇 208氐貨 卮丕亘讴 9643415155禄貨 芦賲賴丿蹖 毓賱賵蹖貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 丿亘蹖乇貙 丿乇 112氐貨 趩丕倬 爻賵賲 1395禄貨 芦卮丕蹖爻鬲賴 丕亘乇丕賴蹖賲蹖貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 诏丕噩貙 1395貙 丿乇 136氐禄貨 芦氐丿賮 賲丨爻賳蹖貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 倬丕乇爻賴貙 1395貙 丿乇 399氐禄貨 芦賲氐胤賮蹖 噩賲卮蹖丿蹖貙 丕賲蹖乇讴亘蹖乇 丕夭 鬲乇噩賲賴 賲爻鬲毓丕賳貙 丿乇 129氐禄貨 芦爻亘丨丕賳 蹖丕爻蹖 倬賵乇貙 丌亘丕賳 賲賴乇貙 1395貙 丿乇 140氐禄貨 芦丕爻賲丕毓蹖賱 毓亘丕爻蹖貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 爻倬蹖丿賴貙 丿乇 47氐禄貨 芦丕賱賴賴 鬲蹖賲賵乇鬲丕卮貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 爻倬蹖丿賴貙 1368貙 丿乇 248氐貨 趩丕倬 丿賵賲 1370禄貨 芦卮賴丕亘貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賲毓乇丕噩蹖貙 丿乇 184氐禄貨 芦丕賲蹖乇 丕爻賲丕毓蹖賱蹖貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 鬲賵爻賳貙 1362貨 丿乇 237氐禄貨 芦毓賳丕蹖鬲 丕賱賱賴 卮讴蹖亘丕 倬賵乇貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賮賳賵賳貙 1368貙 丿乇 384氐禄貨 芦丕亘乇丕賴蹖賲 乇賴丕貙 1382貙 丿乇 64氐禄貨 芦丕亘乇丕賴蹖賲 夭賳噩丕賳蹖 亘丕 毓賳賵丕賳 跇丕賳 賵丕賱跇丕賳禄貨 芦匕亘蹖丨 丕賱賱賴 賲賳氐賵乇蹖貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 亘賳蹖丕丿貙 1362貨 丿乇 177氐貨 趩丕倬 爻賵賲 1370禄貨
讴鬲丕亘 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 亘丕乇 1862賲蹖賱丕丿蹖 賳卮乇 卮丿賴貨 賵 丿乇 讴卮賵乇 賲丕 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 亘丕乇 丿乇 爻丕賱 1310賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖 亘丕 亘乇诏乇丿丕賳 乇賵丕賳卮丕丿 芦丨爻蹖賳毓賱蹖 賲爻鬲毓丕賳禄 亘賴 趩丕倬 乇爻蹖丿賴 丕爻鬲貨 賳賲蹖丿丕賳賲貨 蹖丕丿賲 賳賲丕賳丿賴貙 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 趩賳丿亘丕乇 禺賵丕賳丿賴 丕賲貨 丿乇 讴賵丿讴蹖 賳爻禺賴 賴丕蹖 讴賵鬲丕賴 卮丿賴貙 賵 趩讴蹖丿賴 賴丕蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇丕...貙 亘丕乇賴丕 賮蹖賱賲 賴丕蹖 卮讴賵賴賲賳丿 丕賯鬲亘丕爻 卮丿賴 乇丕貙 丿乇 爻蹖賳賲丕賴丕 賵 鬲賱賵蹖夭蹖賵賳 賳诏乇蹖爻鬲賴 丕賲貙 丌禺乇蹖賳 亘丕乇 趩賳丿 爻丕賱 倬蹖卮 亘賵丿貙 亘丕夭 賴賲 鬲乇噩賲賴 蹖 乇賵丕賳卮丕丿賲丕賳 芦丨爻蹖賳毓賱蹖 賲爻鬲毓丕賳禄 乇丕 禺賵丕賳丿賲貨 丿賵爻鬲蹖 丕夭 芦丌賱賲丕賳禄 讴鬲丕亘賴丕蹖 亘蹖賳賵丕蹖丕賳 乇丕 禺賵丕爻鬲賴 亘賵丿賳丿貙 禺乇蹖丿賲 賵 倬蹖卮 丕夭 賮乇爻鬲丕丿賳貙 丿賵亘丕乇賴 丌賳賴丕 乇丕 禺賵丕賳丿賲貙 丕诏乇 亘诏賵蹖賲 賲丿賴賵卮 卮丿賲貙 乇丕賴 亘賴 爻賵蹖 诏夭丕賮賴 賳亘乇丿賴 丕賲貨 芦賵蹖讴鬲賵乇 賴賵诏賵禄 亘夭乇诏賵丕乇鬲乇蹖賳 卮丕毓乇 芦賮乇丕賳爻賴禄貙 丿乇 爻丿賴 蹖 賳賵夭丿賴賲 賲蹖賱丕丿蹖 亘賵丿賳丿貙 卮丕蹖丿 賴賲 亘蹖卮鬲乇 丕夭 賴賲蹖賳 噩賲賱賴 亘丕卮賳丿貙 讴賴 亘賳賵卮鬲賲貨 丕蹖卮丕賳 亘丕 亘夭乇诏賵丕乇蹖貙 亘丕 丕賳賯賱丕亘蹖 亘夭乇诏 夭賳丿诏蹖 讴乇丿賳丿貙 賵 毓賲乇蹖 亘賴 丿乇丕夭丕 讴卮蹖丿 鬲丕 丌賳 乇丕 賳诏丕卮鬲賳丿
賳賯賱 丕夭 賲鬲賳: (丕賲倬乇丕胤賵乇 诏賮鬲: 讴蹖爻鬲 丕蹖賳 賲乇丿讴 讴賴 賲乇丕 賳诏丕賴 賲蹖讴賳丿貨 芦賲蹖乇蹖 蹖賱禄 诏賮鬲: 丕毓賱蹖丨氐乇鬲丕貙 卮賲丕 蹖讴 賲乇丿讴 乇丕 賳诏丕賴 賲蹖讴賳蹖丿 賵 賲賳 蹖讴 賲乇丿 亘夭乇诏 乇丕貙 賴乇 蹖讴 丕夭 賲丕 賲蹖鬲賵丕賳丿貙 丕爻鬲賮丕丿賴 讴賳丿)貨 倬丕蹖丕賳 賳賯賱 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘 亘蹖賳賵丕蹖丕賳貙 賯爻賲鬲 丕賵賱 賮丕賳鬲蹖賳貙 讴鬲丕亘 丕賵賱 蹖讴 毓丕丿賱 - 1 - 賲爻蹖賵 賲蹖乇蹖 蹖賱
鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 23/06/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 19/05/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
Les Mis茅rables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.
In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title.
However, several alternatives have been used, including The Miserables, The Wretched, The Miserable Ones, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, The Victims and The Dispossessed.
Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption.
亘蹖賳賵丕蹖丕賳 - 賵蹖讴鬲賵乇 賴賵诏賵 (噩丕賵蹖丿丕賳 貙 丕賲蹖乇讴亘蹖乇 貙 鬲賵爻賳) 丕丿亘蹖丕鬲 賮乇丕賳爻賴貨 鬲丕乇蹖禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮: 賲丕賴 賲丕乇爻 爻丕賱 1966賲蹖賱丕丿蹖貙 亘丕乇 丿蹖诏乇 丿乇 賲丕賴 賲丕乇爻 爻丕賱2006賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
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February 20, 2023
鈥淭hey fought hand to hand, foot to foot, with pistols, with sabers, with fists, from a distance, from up close, from above, below, everywhere at once, from the roofs of houses, from the windows of the tavern, from the basement windows of the cellars that some of them had slipped down into. It was one against sixty. The fa莽ade of Corinthe, half-demolished, was hideous to behold. The window, speckled with shot, had lost both glass and frame, and was just a shapeless hole, crazily stopped up with cobbles鈥One man], run through with three thrusts of a bayonet to the chest just as he was lifting up a wounded soldier, only had time to look up at the sky before he breathed his last鈥︹€�
- Victor Hugo, Les Mis茅rables (translated by Julie Rose)
I wanted a reading challenge.
This was a reading challenge.
At 1,376 pages, the Julie Rose-translated, unabridged version of Les Mis茅rables is one of the longest single volumes I have ever read. More than sheer length, though, is that length鈥檚 composition. This is not an A-to-B type of story. This is A-to-Z, with stops along the way to ponderously scrutinize each and every other letter, describing its shape, its genealogy, and its place in the fabric of the universe.
By the end, I was exhausted, hammered into submission by Victor Hugo鈥檚 unwillingness to use one word when an entire chapter will do. The conclusion, I recall, was absolutely beautiful; and yet, by the time I reached that endpoint, all my patience had long since disappeared.
Or perhaps it simply assumed a false identity and retreated to Montreuil-sur-Mer in northern France.
***
Despite its prodigious size, summarizing Hugo鈥檚 famous novel is rather easy, given the fame of its derivative works. At the center of Les Mis茅rables is Jean Valjean, imprisoned for nineteen years for stealing bread (and subsequently attempting to escape several times). Finally released, he soon realizes that society is not ready to accept him, despite paying for his crimes. He is hounded by the upright and sanctimonious bloodhound Inspector Javert. As he is chased, Jean Valjean comes into contact with Cosette, an orphan who he raises as his own. Eventually, Jean Valjean, Cosette, Inspector Javert, and a supporting cast of many dozens of others, find themselves on the cobbled streets of Paris during the June Rebellion of 1832.
This story is told in inimitable fashion by an author of extraordinary talents. Say what you will about Hugo 鈥� and I shall! 鈥� the man had unique abilities.
First, he has an extraordinary way with characters. Most of the individuals in Les Mis茅rables are a mile wide and an inch deep; that is, they tend to be either white-hats or black-hats (though in some cases, the black-hats undergo near-religious conversions). Nevertheless, he imbues even the most tangential characters with some memorable detail, with some humanizing aspect. One of my favorites was Monseigneur Bienvenu, the Bishop of Digne, a man who has only one small role to play in this tale, and yet is given a full-dress biography before disappearing offstage.
Second, Hugo is a master of describing a particular place at a particular time. It is not long ago that the world held its breath, transfixed, as Notre-Dame de Paris threatened to crumble before our very eyes. That event sent people rushing to The Hunchback of Notre Dame, for the reason that Hugo鈥檚 rapt descriptions had helped save the cathedral in the first place. While Notre-Dame is only fleetingly referenced here, Hugo still delivers a lengthy love letter to Paris, soliloquizing on the granular level, creating a written-word, street-by-street map. If you ever find yourself in a time machine heading to 1830s France, take this as a guide.
Finally, Hugo knows how to create a set piece. Much of Les Mis茅rables is given over to essays and exposition (Hugo will barely allow a character to take a step without delivering a history of the shoe). Sprinkled amidst these word-bogs, however, are some crackling scenes that Hugo carefully builds and skillfully executes. There is a slick chase, a fraught standoff, and a visceral street battle, all of which demonstrate why Les Mis茅rables is so often adapted.
Okay. So that was the good stuff. I wanted to get that out of the way so we could talk about the real issue. Even as an avowed big-book lover, this book is too damn long.
***
Les Mis茅rables suffers from a near-fatal case of literary edema. It is swollen out of all proportion to its subject.
I know what you鈥檙e going to say: Abridgment.
To which I reply: Gross.
I don鈥檛 do abridgments. Abridging a book is like kissing an eager and willing cousin. It might be easy, but it ain鈥檛 right.
When I read a novel, I want it to be on the original terms, as mediated by author and editor. As far as I know, this is the version that Hugo wanted; thus, this is the version on which I will judge him.
(I cannot judge the translation, other than to say I liked it. There were a few clunky moments and some dialogue that seemed a bit anachronistic as it tried to convey a modern flavor. Overall, I often forgot this was a translation, which is a good thing).
The style employed by Hugo is digressionary to the extreme. Remember when you were young, and it took your mom and dad forever to get to the point? Well, just thank your lucky stars that you weren鈥檛 raised by the French romantic poet, dramatist, and novelist Victor Hugo! Because I can guarantee that it would take him a week to explain why you shouldn鈥檛 be sneaking out of your room.
The digressions in Les Mis茅rables take many forms. Some are simply a function of overexplaining. For instance, as noted above, we did not need to know everything about the Bishop of Digne in order for him to perform his one crucial act. Similarly, the incidental meeting of two characters at the battle of Waterloo did not require an epic recapitulation of the famous clash. To the contrary, that intersection could have been effectuated in a sentence or 鈥� if we鈥檙e getting paid by the word 鈥� a paragraph. This overexplaining can be a bit taxing, but it is also ably handled and adds a sort of mythical overlay to the narrative.
The other digressions, however, serve only to distract, to burden, to annoy. The essays are the worst. In contemporary times, perhaps, they might have served a purpose. Not any longer. There is, to take one example, a critique on monasticism. I will allow that when Hugo wrote this, convents might have been a great danger to the world. Now, it fails to make the list of 鈥淥ne Trillion Things I鈥檓 Worried About.鈥� At page 805, the reader is treated to Hugo going meta on us, as he delivers 20 pages about the use of slang in a novel. Again, this has no present-day relevance in a world in which realistic dialogue (utilizing slang, specific speech patterns, or terms of art) are the norm.
Hugo鈥檚 digressions are inexcusably disruptive and antithetical to all notions of pacing and flow. He is like the speedbump on the Indy 500 track, the blind dogleg on the interstate. Every time Les Mis茅rables gets some momentum going, Hugo yanks on the leash. It almost seems an intentional act, as though he is troubled by the thought of his novel being too entertaining. I can accept, as I noted above, the idea that an author might find it necessary to explain the history of a sewer system, before a character attempts to escape through it. What I cannot accept, though, is how this history is presaged by a disquisition on poop that manages to be simultaneously unneeded, gross, and a little racist.
(Yes, there is really an essay on poop. )
***
Classic novels tend to be challenging to read. It takes a certain amount of discipline and patience and maturity to appreciate them. There was a time, I will admit, that I opened certain books by the likes of Melville, Dickens, and Tolstoy, with a sneer already on my face, ready to puncture time-honored masterpieces with snark and sarcasm (though I stand by every unkind word I uttered about Moby Dick).
I opened Les Mis茅rables cognizant of its challenges, but truly (I believe) openminded as to its quality. It therefore came as a surprise when about halfway through (or a mere 688 pages), I started to dread this. It became my anti-white-whale, a thing that obsessed me but that I wanted to avoid. A good book can lift your spirits and brighten your day; a bad one does the opposite.
Of course, I am old enough now to recognize the arrogance inherent in calling a timeless work like Les Mis茅rables 鈥渂ad.鈥� (Though arrogance is something that Hugo had in spades. After all, he wrote an essay on poop water and convinced you it was genius). This recognition led to a bit of meditation, as I tried to separate what I liked from what I didn鈥檛, what worked from what failed. I tried to divine an answer as to why this excessive and overlong monument to protracted verbosity has endured.
Ultimately, I think it has to do with the fact that there is a lean, effective tale of bracing moral clarity within these pages. When we think of Les Mis茅rables, even if we haven鈥檛 read it, even if we haven't seen the famed musical, we conjure images of broken systems, of justice that will break a man鈥檚 back, of city streets abounding with poor children; and we applaud the message of charity, kindness, and goodwill that Hugo preaches.
Of course, when we think of Les Mis茅rables, we also tend to forget that this simple and timeless message is nearly obscured by antimonarchical screeds and learned tracts on sewage.
- Victor Hugo, Les Mis茅rables (translated by Julie Rose)
I wanted a reading challenge.
This was a reading challenge.
At 1,376 pages, the Julie Rose-translated, unabridged version of Les Mis茅rables is one of the longest single volumes I have ever read. More than sheer length, though, is that length鈥檚 composition. This is not an A-to-B type of story. This is A-to-Z, with stops along the way to ponderously scrutinize each and every other letter, describing its shape, its genealogy, and its place in the fabric of the universe.
By the end, I was exhausted, hammered into submission by Victor Hugo鈥檚 unwillingness to use one word when an entire chapter will do. The conclusion, I recall, was absolutely beautiful; and yet, by the time I reached that endpoint, all my patience had long since disappeared.
Or perhaps it simply assumed a false identity and retreated to Montreuil-sur-Mer in northern France.
***
Despite its prodigious size, summarizing Hugo鈥檚 famous novel is rather easy, given the fame of its derivative works. At the center of Les Mis茅rables is Jean Valjean, imprisoned for nineteen years for stealing bread (and subsequently attempting to escape several times). Finally released, he soon realizes that society is not ready to accept him, despite paying for his crimes. He is hounded by the upright and sanctimonious bloodhound Inspector Javert. As he is chased, Jean Valjean comes into contact with Cosette, an orphan who he raises as his own. Eventually, Jean Valjean, Cosette, Inspector Javert, and a supporting cast of many dozens of others, find themselves on the cobbled streets of Paris during the June Rebellion of 1832.
This story is told in inimitable fashion by an author of extraordinary talents. Say what you will about Hugo 鈥� and I shall! 鈥� the man had unique abilities.
First, he has an extraordinary way with characters. Most of the individuals in Les Mis茅rables are a mile wide and an inch deep; that is, they tend to be either white-hats or black-hats (though in some cases, the black-hats undergo near-religious conversions). Nevertheless, he imbues even the most tangential characters with some memorable detail, with some humanizing aspect. One of my favorites was Monseigneur Bienvenu, the Bishop of Digne, a man who has only one small role to play in this tale, and yet is given a full-dress biography before disappearing offstage.
Second, Hugo is a master of describing a particular place at a particular time. It is not long ago that the world held its breath, transfixed, as Notre-Dame de Paris threatened to crumble before our very eyes. That event sent people rushing to The Hunchback of Notre Dame, for the reason that Hugo鈥檚 rapt descriptions had helped save the cathedral in the first place. While Notre-Dame is only fleetingly referenced here, Hugo still delivers a lengthy love letter to Paris, soliloquizing on the granular level, creating a written-word, street-by-street map. If you ever find yourself in a time machine heading to 1830s France, take this as a guide.
Finally, Hugo knows how to create a set piece. Much of Les Mis茅rables is given over to essays and exposition (Hugo will barely allow a character to take a step without delivering a history of the shoe). Sprinkled amidst these word-bogs, however, are some crackling scenes that Hugo carefully builds and skillfully executes. There is a slick chase, a fraught standoff, and a visceral street battle, all of which demonstrate why Les Mis茅rables is so often adapted.
Okay. So that was the good stuff. I wanted to get that out of the way so we could talk about the real issue. Even as an avowed big-book lover, this book is too damn long.
***
Les Mis茅rables suffers from a near-fatal case of literary edema. It is swollen out of all proportion to its subject.
I know what you鈥檙e going to say: Abridgment.
To which I reply: Gross.
I don鈥檛 do abridgments. Abridging a book is like kissing an eager and willing cousin. It might be easy, but it ain鈥檛 right.
When I read a novel, I want it to be on the original terms, as mediated by author and editor. As far as I know, this is the version that Hugo wanted; thus, this is the version on which I will judge him.
(I cannot judge the translation, other than to say I liked it. There were a few clunky moments and some dialogue that seemed a bit anachronistic as it tried to convey a modern flavor. Overall, I often forgot this was a translation, which is a good thing).
The style employed by Hugo is digressionary to the extreme. Remember when you were young, and it took your mom and dad forever to get to the point? Well, just thank your lucky stars that you weren鈥檛 raised by the French romantic poet, dramatist, and novelist Victor Hugo! Because I can guarantee that it would take him a week to explain why you shouldn鈥檛 be sneaking out of your room.
The digressions in Les Mis茅rables take many forms. Some are simply a function of overexplaining. For instance, as noted above, we did not need to know everything about the Bishop of Digne in order for him to perform his one crucial act. Similarly, the incidental meeting of two characters at the battle of Waterloo did not require an epic recapitulation of the famous clash. To the contrary, that intersection could have been effectuated in a sentence or 鈥� if we鈥檙e getting paid by the word 鈥� a paragraph. This overexplaining can be a bit taxing, but it is also ably handled and adds a sort of mythical overlay to the narrative.
The other digressions, however, serve only to distract, to burden, to annoy. The essays are the worst. In contemporary times, perhaps, they might have served a purpose. Not any longer. There is, to take one example, a critique on monasticism. I will allow that when Hugo wrote this, convents might have been a great danger to the world. Now, it fails to make the list of 鈥淥ne Trillion Things I鈥檓 Worried About.鈥� At page 805, the reader is treated to Hugo going meta on us, as he delivers 20 pages about the use of slang in a novel. Again, this has no present-day relevance in a world in which realistic dialogue (utilizing slang, specific speech patterns, or terms of art) are the norm.
Hugo鈥檚 digressions are inexcusably disruptive and antithetical to all notions of pacing and flow. He is like the speedbump on the Indy 500 track, the blind dogleg on the interstate. Every time Les Mis茅rables gets some momentum going, Hugo yanks on the leash. It almost seems an intentional act, as though he is troubled by the thought of his novel being too entertaining. I can accept, as I noted above, the idea that an author might find it necessary to explain the history of a sewer system, before a character attempts to escape through it. What I cannot accept, though, is how this history is presaged by a disquisition on poop that manages to be simultaneously unneeded, gross, and a little racist.
(Yes, there is really an essay on poop. )
***
Classic novels tend to be challenging to read. It takes a certain amount of discipline and patience and maturity to appreciate them. There was a time, I will admit, that I opened certain books by the likes of Melville, Dickens, and Tolstoy, with a sneer already on my face, ready to puncture time-honored masterpieces with snark and sarcasm (though I stand by every unkind word I uttered about Moby Dick).
I opened Les Mis茅rables cognizant of its challenges, but truly (I believe) openminded as to its quality. It therefore came as a surprise when about halfway through (or a mere 688 pages), I started to dread this. It became my anti-white-whale, a thing that obsessed me but that I wanted to avoid. A good book can lift your spirits and brighten your day; a bad one does the opposite.
Of course, I am old enough now to recognize the arrogance inherent in calling a timeless work like Les Mis茅rables 鈥渂ad.鈥� (Though arrogance is something that Hugo had in spades. After all, he wrote an essay on poop water and convinced you it was genius). This recognition led to a bit of meditation, as I tried to separate what I liked from what I didn鈥檛, what worked from what failed. I tried to divine an answer as to why this excessive and overlong monument to protracted verbosity has endured.
Ultimately, I think it has to do with the fact that there is a lean, effective tale of bracing moral clarity within these pages. When we think of Les Mis茅rables, even if we haven鈥檛 read it, even if we haven't seen the famed musical, we conjure images of broken systems, of justice that will break a man鈥檚 back, of city streets abounding with poor children; and we applaud the message of charity, kindness, and goodwill that Hugo preaches.
Of course, when we think of Les Mis茅rables, we also tend to forget that this simple and timeless message is nearly obscured by antimonarchical screeds and learned tracts on sewage.
March 7, 2017
I'm in the minority unfortunately. I thought the book was okay. I was hoping it would blow my mind and be a favorite like The Count Of Monte Cristo, as I was afraid of that book too, but alas, it was not =(
I might as well put the ole spoilers tag up on here! Oh and even though Jean's name will be changed in the book, I'm sticking with Jean so I won't get all messed up!
FANTINE
I worry at times when reading classic books because I feel I won't understand a lot of them. And some I haven't. Come to think of it, I have read books that aren't classic and never understood them and still loved them. I'm strange, I know.
I felt the same way when I went into The Count of Monte Cristo. I was so worried I wouldn't get it enough to like it and uh, it's one of my favorite books to date!
Les Mis has given me some trouble during the first of the book. I have felt like I'm not going to like it too much and then there would be parts that I just loved. So we shall see when I finish it awhile from now.
I really liked M. Myriel, he was a very nice man. I mean just because he's a man of the cloth doesn't mean he will be nice but he was and I loved him. It was sad when he died.
Jean Valjean was a prisoner of 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread to try to feed his sister and her seven children. They don't care if people or kids starve to death and going to jail for 19 years. Wow! Jean only heard of news one time of his sister and the youngest child working and going to school. No one knows what became of the rest of the children.
After the 19 years Jean was let out on parole. He couldn't find a place to take him in for the night and feed him. He had money but they didn't want a criminal in their inns. But he came upon M. Myriel who was a Bishop at the church. (if I have it all correctly) He let Jean have a bed for the first time in years, gave him food and was very kind to him. In turn, Jean stole away in the night with the silverware. But being the kind man M. Myriel was he didn't press charges when the coppers dragged Jean back. He did tell something to Jean that made him change his ways.
Jean was a changed man after this and it was good.
Next is the story of Fantine. This broke my heart! Fantine and some of her so called friends had suitors and they all thought they were going to be together and get married, all of the wonderful things. But it was not so. The men left the woman with nothing. Fantine was left with child and her so called friends all went separate ways.
Fantine had to leave little Cosette at a home until she got enough money to get her. The home was a fake and they were rude and horrible people. Fantine sent them money to keep Cosette. Year after year she sent money. She worked for Jean who had a different name and owned a business. Sadly for Fantine she was fired because of some jerk workers and Jean never knew about it.
Fantine was forced to sale her hair, some of her teeth and become a whore so Cosette would be okay.
One day Fantine was taken to jail for scratching a jerk man. Jean found her there and took her to the hospital. He saved her from being put in prison, but unfortunately she had a disease and would not live. He made a promise to find Cosette. It was so very sad that she had to live the life she did and never see her daughter ever again. She was thrown away........
COSETTE
Soooooooooooooooo, I wasn't feeling this one as much until it got to Jean & Cosette.
Jean found Cosette carrying a heavy water bucket and asked her many questions. He found out she was the girl she promised Fantine he would take care of, her daughter.
Jean watched how the couple were treating Cosette because he was staying at their Inn. He as livid and so was I at the way Cosette was treated. Jean told them he was taking her away with him, paid them money (overcharged) for his stay there. Oh, and I loved when he went out and bought her a most expensive doll for her alone because only the owners two daughters got toys to play with, it was so bitter sweet.
They stayed on the run for a time. Jean was always on the run on and off as he's always wanted. He can never shake that freaking, Javert.
Jean and Cosette ending up staying with a man Jean had saved awhile back. Jean worked in the little garden.
Jean, who had lost all thoughts of loving anything when he was in prison. He was a hard man with no love, no anything. But then he felt a spark that grew and grew for Cosette, his daughter, for that's what she became. So sweet.
Unfortunately, I'm not liking this book as much as I would have hoped. I love the parts with Jean and Cosette and hope that there will be more and I will at least love it just enough.
*The rest of the sections and books in the book I was reading.*
Marius
Saint-Denis And Idyll Of The Rue Plumet
Jean Valjean
Afterword
Selected Bibliography
The story continues on with Cosette growing up, finding Marius and love. A revolution. Javert still on Jean's trail. The marriage of Cosette and Marius. And the deaths of Javert and Jean.
The book did bring some tears to my eyes.
It was really sweet with Cosette and Marius. They were made for each other. Even though Jean wasn't too happy about it, he did save Marius in the end so he would live for Cosette.
Javert finally gave up. Jean had saved him from death and Javert threatened once again to kill him, but alas it was his own life he took. He was just tired.....
Jean was on his deathbed when Cosette and Marius found him. He was so happy to see his daughter and Marius. Jean had an angel watching over him and he went peacefully.
Jean, you were a most wonderful man!
MY BLOG:
I might as well put the ole spoilers tag up on here! Oh and even though Jean's name will be changed in the book, I'm sticking with Jean so I won't get all messed up!
FANTINE
1)An Upright Man
2) The Fall
3) In The Year 1817
4) To Trust Is Sometimes To Surrender
5) The Descent
6) Javert
7) The Champmathieu Affair
8) Counter-Stroke
I worry at times when reading classic books because I feel I won't understand a lot of them. And some I haven't. Come to think of it, I have read books that aren't classic and never understood them and still loved them. I'm strange, I know.
I felt the same way when I went into The Count of Monte Cristo. I was so worried I wouldn't get it enough to like it and uh, it's one of my favorite books to date!
Les Mis has given me some trouble during the first of the book. I have felt like I'm not going to like it too much and then there would be parts that I just loved. So we shall see when I finish it awhile from now.
I really liked M. Myriel, he was a very nice man. I mean just because he's a man of the cloth doesn't mean he will be nice but he was and I loved him. It was sad when he died.
Jean Valjean was a prisoner of 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread to try to feed his sister and her seven children. They don't care if people or kids starve to death and going to jail for 19 years. Wow! Jean only heard of news one time of his sister and the youngest child working and going to school. No one knows what became of the rest of the children.
After the 19 years Jean was let out on parole. He couldn't find a place to take him in for the night and feed him. He had money but they didn't want a criminal in their inns. But he came upon M. Myriel who was a Bishop at the church. (if I have it all correctly) He let Jean have a bed for the first time in years, gave him food and was very kind to him. In turn, Jean stole away in the night with the silverware. But being the kind man M. Myriel was he didn't press charges when the coppers dragged Jean back. He did tell something to Jean that made him change his ways.
The bishop approached him and said, in a low voice. "Do not forget, ever, that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.
Jean Valjean, who had no recollection of any such promise, stood dumbfounded. The bishop had stressed these words as he spoke them. He continued, solemnly, "Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul I am buying from you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!"
Jean was a changed man after this and it was good.
Next is the story of Fantine. This broke my heart! Fantine and some of her so called friends had suitors and they all thought they were going to be together and get married, all of the wonderful things. But it was not so. The men left the woman with nothing. Fantine was left with child and her so called friends all went separate ways.
Fantine had to leave little Cosette at a home until she got enough money to get her. The home was a fake and they were rude and horrible people. Fantine sent them money to keep Cosette. Year after year she sent money. She worked for Jean who had a different name and owned a business. Sadly for Fantine she was fired because of some jerk workers and Jean never knew about it.
Fantine was forced to sale her hair, some of her teeth and become a whore so Cosette would be okay.
One day Fantine was taken to jail for scratching a jerk man. Jean found her there and took her to the hospital. He saved her from being put in prison, but unfortunately she had a disease and would not live. He made a promise to find Cosette. It was so very sad that she had to live the life she did and never see her daughter ever again. She was thrown away........
COSETTE
1) Waterloo
2) The Ship Orion
3) Fulfillment Of The Promise Made To The Departed
4) The Old Gorbeau House
5) A Dark Chase Requires A Silent Hound
6) Petit-Picpus
7) Cemeteries Take What Is Given Them
Soooooooooooooooo, I wasn't feeling this one as much until it got to Jean & Cosette.
Jean found Cosette carrying a heavy water bucket and asked her many questions. He found out she was the girl she promised Fantine he would take care of, her daughter.
Jean watched how the couple were treating Cosette because he was staying at their Inn. He as livid and so was I at the way Cosette was treated. Jean told them he was taking her away with him, paid them money (overcharged) for his stay there. Oh, and I loved when he went out and bought her a most expensive doll for her alone because only the owners two daughters got toys to play with, it was so bitter sweet.
They stayed on the run for a time. Jean was always on the run on and off as he's always wanted. He can never shake that freaking, Javert.
Jean and Cosette ending up staying with a man Jean had saved awhile back. Jean worked in the little garden.
Jean, who had lost all thoughts of loving anything when he was in prison. He was a hard man with no love, no anything. But then he felt a spark that grew and grew for Cosette, his daughter, for that's what she became. So sweet.
His whole heart melted in gratitude and he loved more and more.
Several years went by like this. Cosette was growing up.
Unfortunately, I'm not liking this book as much as I would have hoped. I love the parts with Jean and Cosette and hope that there will be more and I will at least love it just enough.
*The rest of the sections and books in the book I was reading.*
Marius
1) Paris Atomized
2) The Grand Bourgeois
3) The Grandfather And The Grandson
4) The Friends Of The ABC
5) The Excellence Of Misfortune
6) The Conjunction of Two Stars
7) Patron-Minette
8) The Noxious Poor
Saint-Denis And Idyll Of The Rue Plumet
1) A Few Pages Of History
2) Eponine
3) The House On The Rue Plumet
4) Aid From Below Or From Above
5) An End Unlike The Beginning
6) Little Gavroche
7) Argot
8) Enchantments And Desolations
9) Where Are They Going?
10) June 5, 1832
11) The Atom Fraternizes With The Hurricane
12) Corinth
13) Marius Enters The Shadow
14) The Grandeur Of Despair
15) The Rue De L'Homme-Arme
Jean Valjean
1) War Between Four Walls
2) The Intestine Of Leviathan
3) Much, But Soul
4) Javert Off The Track
5) Grandson And Grandfather
6) The White Night
7) The Last Drop In The Chalice
8) The Twilight Waning
9) Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn
Afterword
Selected Bibliography
The story continues on with Cosette growing up, finding Marius and love. A revolution. Javert still on Jean's trail. The marriage of Cosette and Marius. And the deaths of Javert and Jean.
The book did bring some tears to my eyes.
It was really sweet with Cosette and Marius. They were made for each other. Even though Jean wasn't too happy about it, he did save Marius in the end so he would live for Cosette.
Javert finally gave up. Jean had saved him from death and Javert threatened once again to kill him, but alas it was his own life he took. He was just tired.....
Jean was on his deathbed when Cosette and Marius found him. He was so happy to see his daughter and Marius. Jean had an angel watching over him and he went peacefully.
Jean, you were a most wonderful man!
The night was starless and very dark. Without any doubt, in the gloom, some mighty angel was standing, with outstretched wings, waiting for the soul.
MY BLOG:
June 7, 2024
2024 Reread:
There isn't much else I'd like to add to the previous review, as I feel much the same as the first time I read it nearly ten years ago; enchanted. I admittedly did find a couple minor irritations with select characters this time around, almost feeling the need to skim read their sections, but even with that being said, this still stands as one of my favourite books of all time, and I have no doubt I'll come back to it again in the near future.
This is one of the longest books I've ever read and it is, without a doubt, one of the best books i've been privileged enough to read. I mean, this is everything I seek in a book. I'm struggling to convey just how I feel about this, due to my excitement! Hugo had me smiling, laughing, raising an eyebrow or two, and most of the time crying, all in one chapter. This is in no way a happy tale, as one can probably tell by the title, but it has affected me more than I had anticipated. Hugo certainly knows how to captivate the reader, and captivate, he did.
"The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only
I am a die-hard fan of the West-end show of Les Miserables, as opposed to the pitiful offering of that 2012 film release. There was plenty wrong with the film, most of all the silly casting, the way it was ridiculously dressed up to be something it absolutely wasn't, and the general feeling of mockery of the book, but I don't worry, because the book tells the story as it should be, without the pathetic need to try and make money out of it.
There are not enough stars in existence in order for me to give this book it's true rating, so I'll just have to give the book five stars, and acknowledge the book's wonderful existence daily as it takes pride of place on my bookshelves. Thank you Victor Hugo, for breaking and mending my heart in 1232 pages.
There isn't much else I'd like to add to the previous review, as I feel much the same as the first time I read it nearly ten years ago; enchanted. I admittedly did find a couple minor irritations with select characters this time around, almost feeling the need to skim read their sections, but even with that being said, this still stands as one of my favourite books of all time, and I have no doubt I'll come back to it again in the near future.
This is one of the longest books I've ever read and it is, without a doubt, one of the best books i've been privileged enough to read. I mean, this is everything I seek in a book. I'm struggling to convey just how I feel about this, due to my excitement! Hugo had me smiling, laughing, raising an eyebrow or two, and most of the time crying, all in one chapter. This is in no way a happy tale, as one can probably tell by the title, but it has affected me more than I had anticipated. Hugo certainly knows how to captivate the reader, and captivate, he did.
"The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only
I am a die-hard fan of the West-end show of Les Miserables, as opposed to the pitiful offering of that 2012 film release. There was plenty wrong with the film, most of all the silly casting, the way it was ridiculously dressed up to be something it absolutely wasn't, and the general feeling of mockery of the book, but I don't worry, because the book tells the story as it should be, without the pathetic need to try and make money out of it.
There are not enough stars in existence in order for me to give this book it's true rating, so I'll just have to give the book five stars, and acknowledge the book's wonderful existence daily as it takes pride of place on my bookshelves. Thank you Victor Hugo, for breaking and mending my heart in 1232 pages.
September 2, 2016
Jam谩s he le铆do nada igual. Ni lo har茅. Ya s茅 que eso suena exagerado, pero s茅 perfectamente que no leer茅 nada tan bueno de nuevo. Los Miserables est谩 a un nivel que solo Victor Hugo puede llegar a tocar.
September 5, 2024
This is one of the most beautiful and best books that is ever written about human suffering; a true masterpiece. It is no exaggeration on my part to say so, and those who have read and liked it would agree with me. I have seen the musical and a miniseries, but the book surpasses them all. In my opinion, nothing can be compared with the book. Reading this was such a rewarding experience.
While many areas including politics, progress, religion, morals are discussed in this lengthy work, the story as we all know is the story of Jean Val Jean, a victim of human injustice. Val Jean is an unorthodox hero 鈥� a social outcast. Through his story, Hugo brings to life the immense suffering the underprivileged class goes through. This is the central theme of the story. The physical suffering, the mental agonies, the moral dilemmas the people of this class go through are heartbreaking. Poverty, lack of education, ignorance, and negligence of the rulers have heavily contributed to the dreary lives and living conditions of this deprived class. Hugo penetrates deep into their lives and captures their misery sincerely and sympathetically. His compassion for them flows through his heart-touching writing.
The background to the story runs from the eve of the battle of Waterloo to the Paris insurgency of June 1833. Hugo presents an account of these turning points of French history to the readers while entwining his story well with it. The chosen background in which the story is set gives Hugo the freedom to freely express his political and social perspective.
Jean Val Jean, Fantine, and Cosette are the main characters Hugo creates to portray human suffering. Hugo covers all classes with them. There are other minor characters too, but these three characters stand out in the story for the unaccountable miseries they go through. Jean Val Jean, as was said above, is the hero. He is constantly persecuted by society and by the law. The early encounter with the bishop Bienvenu helps him to replace his hatred with love; love for the god and mankind. He starts a new life and becomes successful, and remembering the kindness and guidance of the Bishop, he becomes generous and benevolent. Society reaps all the benefits and law respects him, only till his identity is revealed. When his identity is exposed, both law and society become his pursuers, feigning a blind eye to his virtues. This cruelty is shocking and heartbreaking. The despair he goes through of being a social outcast all his life no matter how reformed and close to god he has become is strongly portrayed. Hugo accuses the society of its cruelty, condemns their actions, and shows that despite the stones cast at Val Jean, his faith in God and his righteousness are never impaired. He suffers, yet forgives and loves. Hugo brings out a Christ-like hero in him.
One shouldn鈥檛, however, think that Les Mis茅rables is only about misery and suffering. There is also love and happiness. There is fatherly love between Val Jean and Cosette, and love and perfect bliss between Cosette and Marius. These happy relations pour sunshine to the story amidst the heavy, dark clouds.
Hugo鈥檚 writing is beautifully descriptive, poetic, passionate, dramatic and emotion arousing. I cannot recall a book that broke my heart as much as this book did. There were many moments that I truly cried. And there were certain parts which were too painful to read. These include two heart-stricken moments, one concerning Val Jean when he revealed his true identity at Champmathieu's case and to Marius, and the other is when the insurgency is described where many innocent and youthful lives were lost fighting for an idealogy.
The book has been criticized for its too detailed historical accounts. Perhaps they are too detailed, but for my part, I found them informative and helpful to fully understand the backdrop in which the story is written.
The story, apart from the historical details, was emotionally exhausting, but at the same time rewarding. I loved the read, although it mercilessly broke my heart. Thank you, Hugo, for leaving with us such a remarkable and unique literary treasure.
While many areas including politics, progress, religion, morals are discussed in this lengthy work, the story as we all know is the story of Jean Val Jean, a victim of human injustice. Val Jean is an unorthodox hero 鈥� a social outcast. Through his story, Hugo brings to life the immense suffering the underprivileged class goes through. This is the central theme of the story. The physical suffering, the mental agonies, the moral dilemmas the people of this class go through are heartbreaking. Poverty, lack of education, ignorance, and negligence of the rulers have heavily contributed to the dreary lives and living conditions of this deprived class. Hugo penetrates deep into their lives and captures their misery sincerely and sympathetically. His compassion for them flows through his heart-touching writing.
The background to the story runs from the eve of the battle of Waterloo to the Paris insurgency of June 1833. Hugo presents an account of these turning points of French history to the readers while entwining his story well with it. The chosen background in which the story is set gives Hugo the freedom to freely express his political and social perspective.
Jean Val Jean, Fantine, and Cosette are the main characters Hugo creates to portray human suffering. Hugo covers all classes with them. There are other minor characters too, but these three characters stand out in the story for the unaccountable miseries they go through. Jean Val Jean, as was said above, is the hero. He is constantly persecuted by society and by the law. The early encounter with the bishop Bienvenu helps him to replace his hatred with love; love for the god and mankind. He starts a new life and becomes successful, and remembering the kindness and guidance of the Bishop, he becomes generous and benevolent. Society reaps all the benefits and law respects him, only till his identity is revealed. When his identity is exposed, both law and society become his pursuers, feigning a blind eye to his virtues. This cruelty is shocking and heartbreaking. The despair he goes through of being a social outcast all his life no matter how reformed and close to god he has become is strongly portrayed. Hugo accuses the society of its cruelty, condemns their actions, and shows that despite the stones cast at Val Jean, his faith in God and his righteousness are never impaired. He suffers, yet forgives and loves. Hugo brings out a Christ-like hero in him.
One shouldn鈥檛, however, think that Les Mis茅rables is only about misery and suffering. There is also love and happiness. There is fatherly love between Val Jean and Cosette, and love and perfect bliss between Cosette and Marius. These happy relations pour sunshine to the story amidst the heavy, dark clouds.
Hugo鈥檚 writing is beautifully descriptive, poetic, passionate, dramatic and emotion arousing. I cannot recall a book that broke my heart as much as this book did. There were many moments that I truly cried. And there were certain parts which were too painful to read. These include two heart-stricken moments, one concerning Val Jean when he revealed his true identity at Champmathieu's case and to Marius, and the other is when the insurgency is described where many innocent and youthful lives were lost fighting for an idealogy.
The book has been criticized for its too detailed historical accounts. Perhaps they are too detailed, but for my part, I found them informative and helpful to fully understand the backdrop in which the story is written.
The story, apart from the historical details, was emotionally exhausting, but at the same time rewarding. I loved the read, although it mercilessly broke my heart. Thank you, Hugo, for leaving with us such a remarkable and unique literary treasure.
March 19, 2019
What makes a favourite book?
In this case, I will have to say: one single character that broke my heart and shaped my idealism and stirred my anger: Gavroche Th茅nardier.
"Si l'on demandait 脿 la grande et 茅norme ville : Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela ? elle r茅pondrait : C'est mon petit."
One of those street children that see and hear more during their childhood than most people ever experience, who carry pain and neglect with them on their daily adventures to survive in a hostile, careless environment, and still manage to find reasons to love and to live, he made me want to work with children when I was myself still only a teenager. I also wept with his sister 脡ponine, and with Cosette's mother Fantine, and I followed in Gavroche's tracks through the drama of Parisian 19th century history. His fight became my cause.
The main characters, Jean Valjean and his adoptive daughter Cosette, left me rather cold by contrast, as they seemed too perfectly good, too beautiful, too physically strong and mentally one-dimensional to be shaped from real life, and I am not sure Les Mis茅rables would have ranged among my most beloved books, had the novel been slimmed down to their specific plot. The story line of Javert, whose fanatic sense of justice reminds me of later Communist anti-human radicalism, was what made Jean Valjean interesting as a character, rather than his own personality. Would he be caught or not?
I will also have to confess that I would have loved to see the poor, abused 脡ponine find happiness with Marius, as I truly couldn't find anything exciting in the doll Cosette that Jean Valjean had raised. 脡ponine had the potential to become a bright young woman, had she not grown up with comically bad parents in severe poverty:
"On sentait bien qu鈥檃vec d鈥檃utres conditions d鈥櫭ヾucation et de destin茅e, l鈥檃llure gaie et libre de cette jeune fille e没t pu 锚tre quelque chose de doux et de charmant."
The neglected children of Paris - that is what Les Mis茅rables means to me. Ever since I first read the novel during my adolescence, it has accompanied me on my adventures. Gavroche comes to my mind whenever I read about neglected children in the big cities of the world, and now that my own children read the story, and play the soundtrack of the Musical on the piano and sing along with all the pathos they remember from seeing it performed at Broadway in New York, I feel the old shiver down my spine, and I know that one of the sources of my energy as a mother and teacher is to be found in the early feeling of indignation and tenderness towards a child that deserved a better life than he got. He deserved a future. I still believe in that simple idealist dream: each child deserves a future.
"Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!"
In this case, I will have to say: one single character that broke my heart and shaped my idealism and stirred my anger: Gavroche Th茅nardier.
"Si l'on demandait 脿 la grande et 茅norme ville : Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela ? elle r茅pondrait : C'est mon petit."
One of those street children that see and hear more during their childhood than most people ever experience, who carry pain and neglect with them on their daily adventures to survive in a hostile, careless environment, and still manage to find reasons to love and to live, he made me want to work with children when I was myself still only a teenager. I also wept with his sister 脡ponine, and with Cosette's mother Fantine, and I followed in Gavroche's tracks through the drama of Parisian 19th century history. His fight became my cause.
The main characters, Jean Valjean and his adoptive daughter Cosette, left me rather cold by contrast, as they seemed too perfectly good, too beautiful, too physically strong and mentally one-dimensional to be shaped from real life, and I am not sure Les Mis茅rables would have ranged among my most beloved books, had the novel been slimmed down to their specific plot. The story line of Javert, whose fanatic sense of justice reminds me of later Communist anti-human radicalism, was what made Jean Valjean interesting as a character, rather than his own personality. Would he be caught or not?
I will also have to confess that I would have loved to see the poor, abused 脡ponine find happiness with Marius, as I truly couldn't find anything exciting in the doll Cosette that Jean Valjean had raised. 脡ponine had the potential to become a bright young woman, had she not grown up with comically bad parents in severe poverty:
"On sentait bien qu鈥檃vec d鈥檃utres conditions d鈥櫭ヾucation et de destin茅e, l鈥檃llure gaie et libre de cette jeune fille e没t pu 锚tre quelque chose de doux et de charmant."
The neglected children of Paris - that is what Les Mis茅rables means to me. Ever since I first read the novel during my adolescence, it has accompanied me on my adventures. Gavroche comes to my mind whenever I read about neglected children in the big cities of the world, and now that my own children read the story, and play the soundtrack of the Musical on the piano and sing along with all the pathos they remember from seeing it performed at Broadway in New York, I feel the old shiver down my spine, and I know that one of the sources of my energy as a mother and teacher is to be found in the early feeling of indignation and tenderness towards a child that deserved a better life than he got. He deserved a future. I still believe in that simple idealist dream: each child deserves a future.
"Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!"
September 24, 2020
I chose to read the hefty Victor Hugo classic for my thirtieth birthday, &, let me tell you, the experience was One Biiiig Bitch. I mean, why EVEN go to the 200 + year old text when the Broadway musical exists! THAT work of art exudes all beauty and majesty in one continuous song that unites the characters through time; ultimately giving us a true theme, or feeling of genuine victory over adversity. The plot, one gorgeous telenovela of a story, replete with jailbreaks, insurrections, betrayals, war, calamities multiplied & order restored is, in short, too much Muchness for one reader to possibly occupy himself with.
This is the longest novel I have ever read (probably Don Quixote, which took me an entire month to read, is the closest second). & as such, it is difficult--a staggering activity indeed--to maintain order in its review, much less in the colossus text itself that's just very disordered, odd, beautiful-but-not-always; it is a mixture (an irritating one at that, & less than a boost toward modernism) of myriad tones & paces, a gargantuan monster from the abysmal depths of time: a list of lists, basically; a lexicon in Everything French Revolution.
What is the purpose of so many compilation of details to make a heap of facts that, quite frankly, fail to make either a juicy romance or gory history. It's infuriating because it takes up so much of your time. And, bottom line, the characters, even Jean Valjean the lament-filled hero who feels guilt palpably like the feel of the guillotine, is a beacon that illuminates but also dis-illusions. (...and Cosette is a ninny, and Fantine gets duped awful by a group of boys and girls, & Javert is a true mystery that ends up having less to do with our story than other less famous villains like M. Thenardier...)
It is basic Law to read this, so I did. It has not aged well, dudes, fur reels. Like some expensive wine that got rancid. A French one.
&, just because I am very generous, these here are the top four best parts (AKA the most heartwarming) in all of Les Mis., if you wanted to know, followed by the four worst:
1) How Valjean gets Cosette from the clutches of the Thenardiers (the dude simply won't let go!)
2) Gavroche's taking-in of the two Thenardier "brats"
3) Marius' self-inflicted poverty
4) the Bishop's story
The worst are these girthy diatribes that provoke (gasp!) some paragraph skippage:
1) on the Sewers
2) on the slang
3) on the Streets of Paris
4) on the barriacades, which reminds the reader that so many French pre-Revolutionary factoids withholds reader's pleasure, somewhat barricading the avid reader's truest delight.
This is the longest novel I have ever read (probably Don Quixote, which took me an entire month to read, is the closest second). & as such, it is difficult--a staggering activity indeed--to maintain order in its review, much less in the colossus text itself that's just very disordered, odd, beautiful-but-not-always; it is a mixture (an irritating one at that, & less than a boost toward modernism) of myriad tones & paces, a gargantuan monster from the abysmal depths of time: a list of lists, basically; a lexicon in Everything French Revolution.
What is the purpose of so many compilation of details to make a heap of facts that, quite frankly, fail to make either a juicy romance or gory history. It's infuriating because it takes up so much of your time. And, bottom line, the characters, even Jean Valjean the lament-filled hero who feels guilt palpably like the feel of the guillotine, is a beacon that illuminates but also dis-illusions. (...and Cosette is a ninny, and Fantine gets duped awful by a group of boys and girls, & Javert is a true mystery that ends up having less to do with our story than other less famous villains like M. Thenardier...)
It is basic Law to read this, so I did. It has not aged well, dudes, fur reels. Like some expensive wine that got rancid. A French one.
&, just because I am very generous, these here are the top four best parts (AKA the most heartwarming) in all of Les Mis., if you wanted to know, followed by the four worst:
1) How Valjean gets Cosette from the clutches of the Thenardiers (the dude simply won't let go!)
2) Gavroche's taking-in of the two Thenardier "brats"
3) Marius' self-inflicted poverty
4) the Bishop's story
The worst are these girthy diatribes that provoke (gasp!) some paragraph skippage:
1) on the Sewers
2) on the slang
3) on the Streets of Paris
4) on the barriacades, which reminds the reader that so many French pre-Revolutionary factoids withholds reader's pleasure, somewhat barricading the avid reader's truest delight.
April 12, 2024
賮賷 丕賱亘丿丕賷丞 兀毓鬲匕乇 毓賳 胤賵賱 丕賱賲乇丕噩毓丞 貙 賮賲丕 丕賳鬲賴賷鬲 賲賳 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 丨鬲賷 亘丿兀鬲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞 賱兀爻乇丿 賰賱 兀賮賰丕乇賷 貙 賲胤賱賯丕賸 賱賽噩丕賲 賯賱亘賷 賵 賯賱賲賷 , 賲丨丕賮馗丕賸 毓賱賷 賳爻賲丕鬲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賲賳 丕賱囟賷丕毓 .
賴賱 鬲毓賱賲 卮毓賵乇 兀賳 鬲鬲賵賯毓 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 乇賵丕賷丞 賲丕 貙 孬賲 鬲亘丿兀 賮賷 賯乇丕亍鬲賴丕 賮賱丕 鬲噩丿 賲丕 鬲鬲賵賯毓賴 貙 亘賱 鬲毓氐賮 亘賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 毓氐賮丕賸 貙 賵 鬲噩丿賴丕 兀賮囟賱 亘賰孬賷乇 賲賲丕 賰賳鬲 鬲賳鬲馗乇賴.
賲賳 兀賷 廿賱賴丕賲 賰鬲亘 (賮賷賰鬲賵乇 賴賵噩賵) 乇賵丕賷鬲賴 責 賲賳 兀賷 賵丨賷賾 丕爻鬲賱賴賲 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賯氐鬲賴 責
亘兀賷 賯賱賲 禺胤 丕賱卮丕毓乇 賯氐賷丿鬲賴 責 兀賷 亘卅乇 兀丿賱賷 亘丿賱賵賴 賮賷賴丕 賱賷爻賯賷賳丕 賰賱賲丕鬲賴 責
賰賷賮 丕賱爻亘賷賱 賱賲孬賱 賴匕丕 丕賱丨爻賾 賵 丕賱賳馗賲賽 責
賴賱 賰丕賳 賷毓賱賲 (賴賵噩賵) 兀賳賴 爻賷賰鬲亘 賲賱丨賲丞 禺丕賱丿丞 賷亘賯賷 匕賰乇丕賴丕 賲卅丕鬲 丕賱爻賳賷賳 責
兀噩賱 賰丕賳 賷毓賱賲 , 賱丕 賷賲賰賳 兀賳 鬲兀禺匕 賯乇丕乇 兀賳 鬲賰鬲亘 乇賵丕賷丞 鬲購賮賳賷 賮賷賴丕 毓賲乇賰 , 鬲爻鬲睾乇賯 賲賳賰 丕孬賳賷 毓卮乇 毓丕賲丕賸 - 賯囟賷 賳氐賮賴丕 賮賷 丕賱賲賳賮賷 - 丿賵賳 兀賳 鬲丿乇賶 兀賳賰 鬲賰鬲亘 卮賷卅丕賸 賱賱鬲丕乇賷禺 .
賮丨賷賳 兀賳賴賷 ( 賴賵噩賵 ) 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵 亘毓孬 亘賴丕 賱賱賳丕卮乇 賯丕賱 賱賴 :
" 兀毓鬲賯丿 兀賳賷 賯丿 賰鬲亘鬲購 兀賮囟賱 兀毓賲丕賱賷 賵 兀毓鬲賯丿 兀賳賴丕 卮賷卅 毓馗賷賲 . "
丕賱亘丐爻丕亍 , 賲賳 兀卮賴乇 丕賱兀毓賲丕賱 丕賱兀丿亘賷丞 賮賷 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 賱丕 鬲賰丕丿 兀賳 鬲禺賱賵 賯丕卅賲丞 亘兀賮囟賱 乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賲賳賴丕 .
賵 賴丕 兀賳丕 兀賯乇兀 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 爻毓賷丿丕賸 亘兀賳賷 兀禺賷乇丕 爻兀噩賷亘 毓賳 爻丐丕賱: ( 賲丕 兀賮囟賱 乇賵丕賷丞 賯乇兀鬲賴丕 責 ) 亘賯賱亘 賲胤賲卅賳 丕賳賴丕 丕賱亘丐爻丕亍 .
賲賳 丕賱爻禺乇賷丞 兀賳 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 丿丕卅賲丕 賲丿禺賱 爻乇賵乇 賵 賮乇丨丞 賱賷 賵 賷賰賵賳 兀賮囟賱 賲丕 賯乇兀鬲 賲賳 丕賱兀丿亘 丕爻賲賴 丕賱亘丐爻丕亍.馃寶馃槄
亘兀賷 毓賳氐乇 兀亘丿兀 丕賱賲乇丕噩毓丞 責
馃敶 乇亘賲丕 賷噩亘 兀賳 兀亘丿兀 亘兀賯乇亘 毓賳氐乇 賱賷 賵 賴賵 丕賱賯氐丞 , 賰購鬲亘鬲 丕賱賯氐丞 亘丨亘賰丞 丿乇丕賲賷丞 乇丕卅毓丞 禺丕賱丿丞 , 鬲兀禺匕 亘丕賱兀賱亘丕亘 , 賱丕 鬲鬲賵賯毓賴丕 賵 賮賷 賳賮爻 丕賱賵賯鬲 鬲鬲賱賲爻賴丕 賵 鬲鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賷賴丕 賰丕賱賯丿乇 丕賱賲賰鬲賵亘 , 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲賳賴賷賴丕 賱賳 鬲氐丿賯 兀賳賰 禺乇噩鬲 賲賳 賴匕丕 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱賵丕爻毓 丕賱爻丕丨乇.
毓賳 丕賱禺賷乇 賵 丕賱卮乇 貙 毓賳 丕賱丿賷賳 賵 丕賱賯丕賳賵賳 貙 毓賳 丕賱賲賻賱賻賰賷丞 賵 丕賱噩賲賴賵乇賷丞 貙 毓賳 丕賱丨亘 賵 丕賱丨賯丿.
賰兀賳 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賷兀禺匕賰 賲賳 賷丿賰 賱鬲賱賲爻 兀鬲毓爻 賲毓丕賳賷 丕賱卮賯丕亍 , 孬賲 賷胤賵賮 亘賰 賱賷乇賷賰 兀毓匕亘 丌賷丕鬲 丕賱賵賮丕亍.
鬲亘丿兀 丕賱賯氐丞 亘兀爻賯賮 氐丕賱丨 賮賷 賲噩鬲賲毓 賮丕爻丿 , 鬲噩賲賾賱鬲 賳賮爻賴 賵 鬲卮亘毓鬲 亘丨亘 丕賱夭賴丿 賵 丕賱毓胤丕亍 貙 鬲噩賲毓賴 丕賱氐丿賮丞 - 廿丨丿賷 丕賱氐丿賮 丕賱鬲賷 賷丨賷賰賴丕 丕賱賯丿乇 亘毓賳丕賷丞 - 亘丕賱賲噩乇賲 ( 噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳) 賵 丕賱匕賷 賯丿 爻賱亘賴 丕賱爻噩賳 亘乇丕亍鬲賴 賵 丨賰賲 毓賱賷賴 - 丨鬲賷 禺丕乇噩賴 - 亘丕賱禺亘孬 賵 丕賱賲賴丕賳丞 賵 賰兀賳賴 鬲乇賰 毓賱賷賴 噩乇丨丕賸 賲賳賮乇丕賸 賱丕 賷賳丿賲賱 賱丕 賷賱亘孬 兀賳 賷乇丕賴 兀丨丿 丨鬲賷 賷賴乇亘.
賵賰丕賳 賴匕丕 丕賱賱賯丕亍 廿賷匕丕賳丕賸 亘鬲賮噩乇 丕賱賳賵乇 賲賳 丕賱馗賱丕賲 賵 丕賱賲丕亍 賲賳 丨噩丕乇丞 賯賱亘 ( 噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳 ).
賱賷氐賷乇 賴匕丕 丕賱乇噩賱 亘胤賱 賯氐鬲賳丕 賵 賱賷賯丕亘賱 賮賷賲丕 亘毓丿 (賮丕賳鬲賷賳) 賵 丕賱鬲賷 賰丕賳鬲 賲孬丕賱丕 丨賷丕賸 賱賱亘丐爻 丕賱匕賷 賷丨賱 毓賱賷 賮鬲丕丞 乇賷賮賷丞 睾乇鬲賴丕 兀囟賵丕亍 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 賲賯亘賱丞 毓賱賷賴丕 亘賱丕 丨賰賲丞 貙 賵 賲賳 孬賲 賱鬲毓賴丿 廿賱賷賴 亘(賰賵夭賷鬲) 賴匕丕 丕賱賲賱丕賰 丕賱氐睾賷乇 亘毓丿賲丕 鬲乇賰鬲賴丕 亘賷賳 亘乇丕孬賳 丕賱賵丨賵卮 丕賱賮丕鬲賰丞.
賵 賮賷 廿胤丕乇 爻丕丨乇 賳胤賮賵 賮賷 爻賲丕亍 亘丕乇賷爻 賳乇賶 丕賱兀賲賱 賵 丕賱卮噩丕毓丞 賵 丕賱賳賯丕亍 , 賵 賳乇賰賳 廿賱賷 兀賯匕乇 丕賱亘賯丕毓 賵 賳卮賴丿 丕賱禺賷丕賳丞 賵 丕賱丕夭丿乇丕亍.
鈿� 兀賲丕 毓賳 丕賱兀爻賱賵亘 貙 賮賴賵 兀爻賱賵亘 卮丕毓乇賷 賮丕鬲賳 乇賮賷毓 , 賲賻賰賻賾賳 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賲賳 卮乇丨 兀賰孬乇 丕賱兀賮賰丕乇 鬲毓賯賷丿丕賸 賵 爻亘乇 兀毓賲賯 丕賱兀爻乇丕乇 賲賰丕賳丕賸 賵 賵氐賮 兀賰孬乇 丕賱兀賲丕賳賷 噩賲丕賱丕賸 賵 兀賮馗毓 丕賱賵賯丕卅毓 賯亘丨丕賸 .
賵 賷購氐賳賮 賰乇丕卅丿 賮賷 丕賱賲丿乇爻丞 丕賱乇賵賲丕賳爻賷丞.
馃數 兀賯乇亘 賲丕 賱賲爻賳賷 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 兀賳 鬲賰賵賳 賲購丨爻賳丕賸 賱丕 鬲鬲禺賷乇 賮賷 廿丨爻丕賳賰 丕賱兀卮禺丕氐 賮丕賱賰賱 賷爻鬲丨賯 賯亘爻丕賸 賲賳賴 , 賰賳 胤賷亘 丕賱賳賮爻 賵 爻鬲噩丿 囟丕賱鬲賰 賮賷 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 鬲爻毓賷 廿賱賷賰 ,
兀賳 賷毓賷卮 ( 噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳 ) 賮賷 賯賱亘賰 賰卮禺氐 胤賷亘 賵 賰賮賰乇丞 賳賯賷丞 賵 囟賲賷乇 賷賯馗 賵 孬賯丞 毓丕賱賷丞 賵 卮噩丕毓丞 囟丕乇賷丞 賵 賯賵丞 毓丕丿賱丞 .
兀賲丕 毓賳 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 (賮賷賰鬲賵乇 賴賵噩賵) 爻兀賰鬲賮賷 亘兀賳 兀賯賵賱 毓賳賴 兀賳 賰鬲丕亘丕鬲賴 兀孬乇鬲 亘卮賰賱 亘賱賷睾 毓賱賷 噩賲賷毓 賰鬲丕亘 丕賱毓丕賱賲 亘丿丕賷丞 賲賳 (卮丕乇賱夭 丿賷賰賷賳夭 ) 賵 ( 丿賵爻鬲賵賷賵賮賷爻賰賷) 丨鬲賷 賵賯鬲賳丕 丕賱丨丕賱賷 賵 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲賲 鬲丨賵賷賱賴丕 賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱兀賮賱丕賲 賵 丕賱賲爻乇丨賷丕鬲 丨鬲賷 賱賴丕 廿賳賲賷 賷丕亘丕賳賷 .
鬲毓賱賷賯賷 丕賱賵丨賷丿 賴賵 兀賳 丕賱孬賱孬 丕賱兀禺賷乇 賲賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賱賲 賷賰賳 亘噩賲丕賱 賵 爻丨乇 賲丕 爻亘賯賴.
丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 賰丕賳鬲 亘賯賱賲 ( 賲賳賷乇 丕賱亘毓賱亘賰賷 ) 賵 賰丕賳鬲 鬲乇噩賲丞 亘丕賴乇丞 賮氐賷丨丞 亘匕賱 賮賷賴丕 噩賴丿丕 毓馗賷賲丕 賵 兀毓鬲賯丿 兀賳賴丕 賲賳 兀賮囟賱 丕賱鬲乇噩賲丕鬲 賱賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 毓賱賷 賲爻鬲賵賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲.
鉂撡冑娰� 賳賯乇兀 丕賱亘丐爻丕亍 鉂�
賱丕 賷禺賮賷 丨噩賲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱賰亘賷乇 貙 禺賲爻丞 兀噩夭丕亍 賰賱 噩夭亍 賷賯丕乇亘 丕賱500 氐賮丨丞 兀賷 兀賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲賯丕乇亘 丕賱2500 氐賮丨丞 !
兀賲丕賲賰 胤乇賷賯丕賳 :
- 丕賱賳爻禺丞 丕賱賲禺鬲氐乇丞 賴賷 爻乇丿 賲賳 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲 賱賱賯氐丞 賵 賰兀賳賰 噩賱爻鬲 賱兀丨丿 丕賱兀氐丿賯丕亍 賷丨賰賷 賱賰 賯氐丞 丕賱亘丐爻丕亍 貙 爻鬲氐賱賰 賮丨賵賷 丕賱賯氐丞 賵 爻鬲囟賷毓 乇賵毓丞 丕賱兀爻賱賵亘 賵 亘賱丕 卮賰 爻賷賮賵鬲賰 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱賲賴賲丞 賱亘賳丕亍 丕賱賯氐丞 貙 賱丕 兀乇卮丨賴丕.
- 丕賱賳爻禺丞 丕賱賰丕賲賱丞 賵 兀賵氐賷 噩丿丕 亘丕賱賳爻禺丞 丕賱賵乇賯賷丞 貙 賱賰賳 賱賱兀爻賮 爻鬲噩丿 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺賷丞 賵 丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱賲賲賱丞 , 爻鬲噩丿 賮噩兀丞 賷卮乇丨 丕賱賱睾丞 丕賱賮乇賳爻賷丞 丕賱毓丕賲賷丞 貙 賵 賷丨賰賷 賱賰 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丨乇亘 (賵賵鬲乇賱賵) 賵 兀丨賷丕賳丕 賷鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 賲噩丕乇賶 亘丕乇賷爻 貙 賵 賴匕丕 賷乇噩毓 廿賱賶 乇睾亘丞 ( 賮賷賰鬲賵 乇賴賵噩賵 ) 賮賷 兀賳 鬲賰賵賳 丕賱亘丐爻丕亍 賲噩賲毓 兀丿亘賴 賮賵囟毓 賮賷賴丕 賰賱 卮賷卅 .
鉁旓笍 賵 丕賱丨賱 亘亘爻丕胤丞 兀賳 鬲賯乇兀 丕賱賳爻禺丞 丕賱賰丕賲賱丞 賵 丨賷賳 鬲卮毓乇 兀賳 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 丕亘鬲毓丿 毓賳 賲噩乇賶 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 , 鬲胤賱毓 毓賱賷 丕賱賳爻禺丞 丕賱賲禺鬲氐乇丞 賱鬲毓賱賲 賲丕 賴賷 丕賱禺胤賵胤 丕賱毓乇賷囟丞 丕賱賲禺鬲氐乇丞 貙 毓賱賷 爻亘賷賱 丕賱賲孬丕賱 賰丕賳 噩夭亍 亘丿丕賷丞 丕賱孬賵乇丞 賲賲賱丕賸 噩丿丕賸 鬲賲 爻乇丿賴 賮賷 40 氐賮丨丞 貙 爻鬲噩丿賴 賲禺鬲氐乇丕賸 賮賷 孬賱丕孬 氐賮丨丕鬲 賵 賴匕丕 賲丕 賷毓賵夭賰 賲賳賴 .
馃崁馃崁 爻兀鬲乇賰賰 丕賱丕賳 賲毓 亘毓囟 賲賳 丕賱丕賯鬲亘丕爻丕鬲 :
- " 廿賷丕賰 廿賷丕賰 兀賳 鬲賳爻賷 兀亘丿丕賸 兀賳賰 賯丿 賵毓丿鬲賳賷 兀賳 鬲爻鬲禺丿賲 賴匕賴 丕賱賮囟丞 賱鬲賰賵賳 廿賳爻丕賳丕賸 兀賲賷賳丕賸 貙
兀禺賷 (噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳 ) 兀賳鬲 賱賲 鬲毓丿 鬲賳鬲賲賷 賱賱卮乇 亘毓丿 丕賱丌賳 亘賱 賱賱禺賷乇 貙 廿賳賷 兀卮鬲乇賶 乇賵丨賰 賵 廿賳賷 兀爻鬲乇丿賴丕 賲賳 馗賱賲丞 丕賱賮賰乇 賵 丕賱賴賱丕賰 賵 兀賴亘賴丕 廿賱賷 丕賱賱賴 ."
賳馗乇 廿賱賷賴 (噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳) 賲鬲毓噩亘丕賸 賱兀賳賴 賱賲 賷毓丿賴 亘卮賷卅 賲賳 賯亘賱.
" 賰購鬲亘 賷賵賲丕賸 兀賳賳丕 賳賯囟賷 賳氐賮 丕賱毓賲乇 賵 賳丨賳 賳賳鬲馗乇 賱賯丕亍 賲賳 爻賳丨亘賴賲 貙 賵 丕賱賳氐賮 丕賱丌禺乇 賮賷 賵丿丕毓 丕賱匕賷賳 兀丨亘亘賳丕賴賲 ".
" 噩賮鬲 鬲賱賰 丕賱丿賲毓丞 丕賱鬲賷 賰丕賳鬲 毓賷賳賴 鬲爻賮丨賴丕 丨夭賳丕 毓賱賶 噩丿賵亘 兀賲賱賴 賵賳囟賵亘 賲丕亍 丨賷丕鬲賴 貙 賵賱毓賱賴丕 賲賱鬲 賴賷 丕賱兀禺乇賶 賲賳 丕賱丕賳爻賰丕亘 丿賵賳 噩丿賵賶 .. 噩賮鬲 鬲賱賰 丕賱毓賷賳 丕賱賲賮賰乇丞 鈥� 賵丕賱毓賷賵賳 賰孬賷乇丕 賲丕 鬲賮賰乇".
賵 賳馗乇 賳馗乇丞 鬲賳囟丨 亘丕賱氐賮丕亍 賵 禺乇噩鬲 丕賱賰賱賲丕鬲 賲賳 亘賷賳 卮賮鬲賷賴 :
" 丕賱賲賵鬲 賱賷爻 卮賷卅丕賸 乇賴賷亘丕賸 貙 丕賱乇賴賷亘 賴賵 兀賳 賱丕 鬲毓賷卮 . "
" 賴匕丕 丕賱乇噩賱 丕乇鬲囟賷 賰賱 卮賷卅 , 賵 丕賱鬲賲爻 丕賱毓匕乇 毓賳 賰賱 卮賷卅 , 賵 睾賮乇 賰賱 卮卅 , 賵 亘丕乇賰 賰賱 卮賷卅 賵 鬲賲賳賷 丕賱禺賷乇 賱賰賱 丕賳爻丕賳 ... "
" 賵 賰丕賳 賴匕丕 賰賮賷賱丕 兀賳 賷爻賵賷 賰賱 卮賷卅 賲丕毓丕丿丕 乇賵丨賷 , 賰丕賳 孬賲丞 亘賴噩丞 鬲丨賷胤 亘賷 賲賳 賰賱 噩丕賳亘 賵 賱賰賳 兀毓賲丕賯 賳賮爻賷 賲丕 鬲夭丕賱 爻賵丿丕亍 , 賵 賱賷爻 賷賰賮賷 丕賱賲乇兀 兀賳 賷賰賵賳 爻毓賷丿丕 , 廿賳 毓賱賷賳丕 兀賳 賳賰賵賳 乇丕囟賷賳 毓賳 兀賳賮爻賳丕 . "
鉂� 廿賳賴 賷賳丕賲 貙 賵 乇睾賲 兀賳賾 丕賱賯丿乇 賰丕賳 睾乇賷亘丕賸 噩丿丕賸 賲毓賴 賱賯丿 毓丕卮 貙
賵 賱賯丿 賲丕鬲 毓賳丿賲丕 賮賯丿 賲賱丕賰賴 , 廿賳 丕賱兀賲乇 丨丿孬 亘亘爻丕胤丞 , 賰賲丕 賷賴亘胤 丕賱賱賷賱 賵 丨賷賳 賷賵賱賷 丕賱賳賴丕乇 . 鉂�
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9 / 5 / 2022
July 6, 2024
Of all the French literary classics, undoubtedly, The Miserables is unforgettable. For those who know the work, it is undeniable that it always leaves something of transitory reflection (or not) in us. For those unfamiliar with the book, as the title explicitly represents, it talks about human disability. The main character, Jean Valjean, portrays the injustice committed by "justice." He is arrested and convicted for a certain period when he steals bread at a market to satisfy the nostalgic hunger of his sister and his nephews. However, his sentence is always prolonged for trying to escape several times. People understood that he spent fifteen years there working as a prison worker. Despite being the main one, Jean Valjean is not the only one who stands out in this story. We cannot forget about Francine, a beautiful young woman with long blond hair and perfect teeth. His smile would delight any reader who read the book's description, but this beauty is short-lived. Due to the conditions, she leaves her only daughter in the care of a greedy couple who likes to take advantage of everything. Perhaps because of the irony of fate, Francine's daughter falls into the consideration of Jean Valjean, and this one, if I may say, cares like his own daughter. But as in real life, nothing is peaceful. Fiction also gains a touch of rarity, and a detective chases Jean several times.
If he gets caught or not? What happens to the girl? What happens to Francine? If we're there other characters? What else happens in this extraordinary adventure? Just if you read the book to know. But I will tell you one thing: you will not regret it.
If he gets caught or not? What happens to the girl? What happens to Francine? If we're there other characters? What else happens in this extraordinary adventure? Just if you read the book to know. But I will tell you one thing: you will not regret it.
February 27, 2018
This will be another review-as-I-go!
First, a thank you to Rachel for recommending the Fahnestock and MacAfee translation, which is wonderful so far!
Next, a question: Why have I been so drawn lately to these 1,500 page 19th century behemoths? War and Peace, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, and now this. Am I just a glutton for punishment? Or just showing off? I hope not. When I think about it, I think it has to do with the moral scope and depth of the work and the way these books really wear their morality on their sleeves. They're complex, yes, but they're not hiding their morality behind some veneer of "show, don't tell." They're not afraid to plumb the moral depths of the societies they depict, and I think, when I look around at the society I inhabit, that I hunger for more of this. So here I have it.
Hugo certainly takes his time setting up the main action, with a long introductory section on the Bishop (Myriel) before we get to the main character, Jean Valjean. But for some reason it works, so that by the time Valjean arrives on the scene, we have a sense of the place he comes to and the reactions he'll face. Even then, Myriel stands apart from the others in his generosity and kindness, such that the other characters don't even comprehend his attitude. Which of course says as much about contemporary attitudes toward ex-convicts as it does about Myriel himself.
Then the scene shifts, and we're treated to a lighthearted section of youthful fun, but there's a dark undercurrent here too--the illegitimate child born to Fantine, the child named Cosette, who's given up to another family while Fantine finds work and who soon transforms from a happy toddler to a bedraggled house servant. Oh, the heartbreak and misery we experience when she's described sweeping the sidewalk in the cold, dressed only in rags.
The scene then shifts to follow Fantine, and we see her gradual decline as she tried ever more desperately to raise money to send the family housing her daughter. Eventually she sells her two front teeth and becomes a "woman of the streets," which is where she has a run-in with the police officer Javert--a character reminiscent of Angelo from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, a stern agent of the law whose facade of righteousness conceals much. Luckily for Fantine, the mayor intercedes on her behalf.
Then the two parts of the story so far--that of Valjean and that of Fantine--come together, when it's revealed that the mayor is himself Valjean, years later. Oh, the plot thickens, because Javert was an officer who knew and tried to find Valjean years ago, and suddenly declares to the mayor that Valjean was found in the distant town of Arras and will be tried. What does Valjean do? Continue to conceal his identity so that he may do more good, knowing that someone else will suffer in his place? Or declare himself and lose everything? It's quite a magnificent dramatic moment.
And the drama really picks up pace when Valjean rides to Arras to the trial. Will he get there on time? And then there he is, in the courtroom: will he reveal himself? And when he does: will he be arrested right away? How can he escape? It's pure melodrama, in a way, yet fused to the deep moral quandary in the character that makes it irresistible.
One of the techniques I see Hugo employing is to switch storylines suddenly, leaving the reader with no idea how they relate, until at the very end of the storyline, he reveals it: Aha! When Valjean is on his way to Cosette, Hugo makes a huge detour into the history of Waterloo and Napoleon's downfall, and you wonder for pages and pages what this has to do with the story, and then at the very end, we see that one of the haggard men stealing from corpses is the father of the family keeping Cosette, and that another officer, who thinks the haggard man has saved him, declares himself in his debt. You can feel Hugo in those lines lowering the boom for more drama to come.
Hugo is really setting things up now. We get Valjean and Cosette finally ensconced in Paris, and then the scene shifts to examine a new character, Marius, the son of Pontmercy (who thought the father of the family keeping Cosette saved him). Again, you can see the giant cogs in motion, setting up the eventual collision between all these forces. Just an awesome array of characters and plot points, and I can't wait to see how it's going to come together!
Not surprisingly, Marius and Cosette grow up and grow fond of each other through random meetings in Paris. If I had one critique of this book, it's that so much depends on these random meetings of the characters. They keep bumping into each other, as if there were only a few people in the city. But this is a minor critique, and the randomness might even be intentional, making the point that much of life is similarly guided by chance encounters.
Now the political scene intervenes: the uprising. One of the saddest characters in the book is Epinone, the daughter of the horrible innkeeper, who acts more than once to keep Marius out of danger. She's clearly in love with him, but she's been so deformed by poverty and the demands of her harsh parents that she feels unable to express that. Anyway, the uprising is where she performs her ultimate act of bravery and self-sacrifice, and it nearly brought tears to my eyes.
I can't really do the ending any justice through summary. Let me just say that Hugo brings this entire monumental project together masterfully. If Modernism is defined by ironic detachment, this is the ultimate pre-modern work. It's earnest, political, passionate, encyclopedic, and moralistic in the very best sense. Hugo clearly has a point he's trying to make about human goodness, and I deeply appreciate the project. To say it's moved me is a terrific understatement. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it and its characters since finishing reading a couple of days ago. This is an epic and almost mythical work, and it stands as one of the best novels I've read.
First, a thank you to Rachel for recommending the Fahnestock and MacAfee translation, which is wonderful so far!
Next, a question: Why have I been so drawn lately to these 1,500 page 19th century behemoths? War and Peace, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, and now this. Am I just a glutton for punishment? Or just showing off? I hope not. When I think about it, I think it has to do with the moral scope and depth of the work and the way these books really wear their morality on their sleeves. They're complex, yes, but they're not hiding their morality behind some veneer of "show, don't tell." They're not afraid to plumb the moral depths of the societies they depict, and I think, when I look around at the society I inhabit, that I hunger for more of this. So here I have it.
Hugo certainly takes his time setting up the main action, with a long introductory section on the Bishop (Myriel) before we get to the main character, Jean Valjean. But for some reason it works, so that by the time Valjean arrives on the scene, we have a sense of the place he comes to and the reactions he'll face. Even then, Myriel stands apart from the others in his generosity and kindness, such that the other characters don't even comprehend his attitude. Which of course says as much about contemporary attitudes toward ex-convicts as it does about Myriel himself.
Then the scene shifts, and we're treated to a lighthearted section of youthful fun, but there's a dark undercurrent here too--the illegitimate child born to Fantine, the child named Cosette, who's given up to another family while Fantine finds work and who soon transforms from a happy toddler to a bedraggled house servant. Oh, the heartbreak and misery we experience when she's described sweeping the sidewalk in the cold, dressed only in rags.
The scene then shifts to follow Fantine, and we see her gradual decline as she tried ever more desperately to raise money to send the family housing her daughter. Eventually she sells her two front teeth and becomes a "woman of the streets," which is where she has a run-in with the police officer Javert--a character reminiscent of Angelo from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, a stern agent of the law whose facade of righteousness conceals much. Luckily for Fantine, the mayor intercedes on her behalf.
Then the two parts of the story so far--that of Valjean and that of Fantine--come together, when it's revealed that the mayor is himself Valjean, years later. Oh, the plot thickens, because Javert was an officer who knew and tried to find Valjean years ago, and suddenly declares to the mayor that Valjean was found in the distant town of Arras and will be tried. What does Valjean do? Continue to conceal his identity so that he may do more good, knowing that someone else will suffer in his place? Or declare himself and lose everything? It's quite a magnificent dramatic moment.
And the drama really picks up pace when Valjean rides to Arras to the trial. Will he get there on time? And then there he is, in the courtroom: will he reveal himself? And when he does: will he be arrested right away? How can he escape? It's pure melodrama, in a way, yet fused to the deep moral quandary in the character that makes it irresistible.
One of the techniques I see Hugo employing is to switch storylines suddenly, leaving the reader with no idea how they relate, until at the very end of the storyline, he reveals it: Aha! When Valjean is on his way to Cosette, Hugo makes a huge detour into the history of Waterloo and Napoleon's downfall, and you wonder for pages and pages what this has to do with the story, and then at the very end, we see that one of the haggard men stealing from corpses is the father of the family keeping Cosette, and that another officer, who thinks the haggard man has saved him, declares himself in his debt. You can feel Hugo in those lines lowering the boom for more drama to come.
Hugo is really setting things up now. We get Valjean and Cosette finally ensconced in Paris, and then the scene shifts to examine a new character, Marius, the son of Pontmercy (who thought the father of the family keeping Cosette saved him). Again, you can see the giant cogs in motion, setting up the eventual collision between all these forces. Just an awesome array of characters and plot points, and I can't wait to see how it's going to come together!
Not surprisingly, Marius and Cosette grow up and grow fond of each other through random meetings in Paris. If I had one critique of this book, it's that so much depends on these random meetings of the characters. They keep bumping into each other, as if there were only a few people in the city. But this is a minor critique, and the randomness might even be intentional, making the point that much of life is similarly guided by chance encounters.
Now the political scene intervenes: the uprising. One of the saddest characters in the book is Epinone, the daughter of the horrible innkeeper, who acts more than once to keep Marius out of danger. She's clearly in love with him, but she's been so deformed by poverty and the demands of her harsh parents that she feels unable to express that. Anyway, the uprising is where she performs her ultimate act of bravery and self-sacrifice, and it nearly brought tears to my eyes.
I can't really do the ending any justice through summary. Let me just say that Hugo brings this entire monumental project together masterfully. If Modernism is defined by ironic detachment, this is the ultimate pre-modern work. It's earnest, political, passionate, encyclopedic, and moralistic in the very best sense. Hugo clearly has a point he's trying to make about human goodness, and I deeply appreciate the project. To say it's moved me is a terrific understatement. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it and its characters since finishing reading a couple of days ago. This is an epic and almost mythical work, and it stands as one of the best novels I've read.
May 23, 2013
I dreamed a dream of reading this book - and I accomplished it! Surprisingly easy to read - even though it did take quite some time. Hugo does go off on quite a few tangents, but the whole experience was fantastic!
August 19, 2024
4* 卯ndeosebi pentru episodul Gavroche.
葮i pentru sentimentul de lini葯te 葯i securitate pe care 卯l tr膬iam ori de c卯te ori citeam paginile despre ascunz膬toarea din burta elefantului din Pia葲a Bastilia. Le-am parcurs de at卯tea ori, 卯nc卯t le-am 卯nv膬葲at pe de rost. Episodul a circulat ca bro葯ur膬 pentru copii, probabil c膬 abia 卯ncepusem 葯coala. Extrasul cu via葲a lui Gavroche (VI: 2) m-a f膬cut curios cu privire la 卯ntregul roman. L-am citit pu葲in mai t卯rziu. Iar sf卯r葯tul lui m-a dezam膬git. Cum se poate ca frumoasa Cosette, justi葲iarul Marius (pentru care b膬tr卯nul ocna葯 葯i-a sacrificat via葲a) s膬-l trateze pe Jean Valjean cu at卯ta indiferen葲膬? Mi se p膬rea nedrept, un p膬cat strig膬tor la cer. M膬 卯ntrista mai ales urm膬torul pasaj:
S膬 nu uit膬m c膬 Gavroche - al膬turi de liliala, devotata, umila 脡ponine, care 卯l iube葯te 卯n tain膬 pe Marius - era copilul sini葯trilor so葲i Th茅nardier (鈥濼aic膬-su nu-i purta de grij膬, iar maic膬-sa nu-l iubea鈥�). Din fericire, ereditatea nu func葲ioneaz膬 卯n acest caz. 脡ponine se arunc膬 卯n fa葲a gloan葲elor 葯i 卯i salveaz膬 via葲a lui Marius. Iar bun膬tatea voioas膬 葯i curajul neasemuit ale lui Gavroche r膬scump膬r膬 卯ntr-un fel r膬utatea p膬rin葲ilor.
葮i pentru sentimentul de lini葯te 葯i securitate pe care 卯l tr膬iam ori de c卯te ori citeam paginile despre ascunz膬toarea din burta elefantului din Pia葲a Bastilia. Le-am parcurs de at卯tea ori, 卯nc卯t le-am 卯nv膬葲at pe de rost. Episodul a circulat ca bro葯ur膬 pentru copii, probabil c膬 abia 卯ncepusem 葯coala. Extrasul cu via葲a lui Gavroche (VI: 2) m-a f膬cut curios cu privire la 卯ntregul roman. L-am citit pu葲in mai t卯rziu. Iar sf卯r葯tul lui m-a dezam膬git. Cum se poate ca frumoasa Cosette, justi葲iarul Marius (pentru care b膬tr卯nul ocna葯 葯i-a sacrificat via葲a) s膬-l trateze pe Jean Valjean cu at卯ta indiferen葲膬? Mi se p膬rea nedrept, un p膬cat strig膬tor la cer. M膬 卯ntrista mai ales urm膬torul pasaj:
鈥灻巒 cimitirul P猫re-Lachaise, aproape de groapa comun膬..., 卯ntr-un col牛 pustiu, l芒ng膬 un zid cr膬pat, sub o tis膬 pe care urc膬 o ieder膬, printre smocuri de pir 艧i de mu艧chi, e o piatr膬... Ploaia a 卯nverzit-o, v卯ntul a 卯nnegrit-o. Nu e pe l卯ng膬 ea nici o potec膬, 艧i lumii nu-i place s膬 mearg膬 p卯n膬 acolo... Aceast膬 piatr膬 nu are pe ea nici o 卯nsemnare. Nu s-a g卯ndit nimeni, t膬ind-o, dec卯t la m膬rimea unui morm卯nt 艧i n-a vrut nimeni dec卯t s-o fac膬 destul de lung膬 艧i destul de 卯ngust膬 ca s膬 acopere un om. Nu e scris pe ea nici un nume鈥�.
S膬 nu uit膬m c膬 Gavroche - al膬turi de liliala, devotata, umila 脡ponine, care 卯l iube葯te 卯n tain膬 pe Marius - era copilul sini葯trilor so葲i Th茅nardier (鈥濼aic膬-su nu-i purta de grij膬, iar maic膬-sa nu-l iubea鈥�). Din fericire, ereditatea nu func葲ioneaz膬 卯n acest caz. 脡ponine se arunc膬 卯n fa葲a gloan葲elor 葯i 卯i salveaz膬 via葲a lui Marius. Iar bun膬tatea voioas膬 葯i curajul neasemuit ale lui Gavroche r膬scump膬r膬 卯ntr-un fel r膬utatea p膬rin葲ilor.
October 26, 2016
I saw the movie version of this before reading it and I was utterly shook by the powerful nature of the story. When I read it I hoped for the same experience, instead I had one more powerful. In life there are few truly great men: there are few men that are truly and incorruptibly good. Jean Valjean is such a man; he is a paragon of goodliness: he is a superb character.
At the beginning of the novel he sacrifices everything: he steals a loaf of bread knowing full well of the consequences. He risks his freedom in order to save his starving family; he risks his mortality and his morality: he risks everything. He is a truly selfless man, a great man. And what are the consequences for trying to save a starving boy? What is the justice of the land?
Imprisonment.
Servitude.
Pure Corruption.
In this the author captures social injustice in its most brutal form; he shows the foolishness of unbending laws, of a system that refuses to open its eyes, and how the common man will always suffer under the yolk of the powerful. But, somehow, Valjean just about retains his decency and his humanity. Somehow in the face of sadistic ruling, he manages to remain Valjean; he even manages to better himself and improve the world around him. Yes, he makes a mistake that leads to the death of an innocent; yes, he was responsible for the snuffing of the life he ignored. However, he redeems himself in a truly extraordinary way, and eventually pays an even greater sacrifice. The world needs more men like Valjean.
Then if that wasn鈥檛 enough, Valjean even offers his nemesis forgiveness. He sees Javert for the product of society that he is; he looks at him and only sees pity rather than hatred, which would have been a much easier emotion to experience. Valjean does what few men would have the strength to do, and in the process shows his true inner-strength. Javert was fully responsible for his actions. He is a pitiable character. To his cold, singular, narrow-minded, law based logic, Valjean was a simple criminal. Nothing more, nothing less. Javert cannot look beyond the surface. He dedicated his life to preventing this villain form getting away. In this, he is as much a victim as Valjean. When he eventually realises the true errors of his ways, he is broken. He is no more. Javert is not the real villain: it is society.
And this is only one aspect of this superb novel. Javert and Valjean are not the only victims of this novel. Pushed aside, forgotten about, is the miserable Fantine. She represents the tragic state of women鈥檚 place in such a society. No one cares about her. She is just another woman in the street, another countless victim of misrule: someone to be trampled over. But, Valjean shows that life isn鈥檛 completely dark. From such corruption, a heart can remain true to itself and continue beating.
At the beginning of the novel he sacrifices everything: he steals a loaf of bread knowing full well of the consequences. He risks his freedom in order to save his starving family; he risks his mortality and his morality: he risks everything. He is a truly selfless man, a great man. And what are the consequences for trying to save a starving boy? What is the justice of the land?
Imprisonment.
Servitude.
Pure Corruption.
In this the author captures social injustice in its most brutal form; he shows the foolishness of unbending laws, of a system that refuses to open its eyes, and how the common man will always suffer under the yolk of the powerful. But, somehow, Valjean just about retains his decency and his humanity. Somehow in the face of sadistic ruling, he manages to remain Valjean; he even manages to better himself and improve the world around him. Yes, he makes a mistake that leads to the death of an innocent; yes, he was responsible for the snuffing of the life he ignored. However, he redeems himself in a truly extraordinary way, and eventually pays an even greater sacrifice. The world needs more men like Valjean.
Then if that wasn鈥檛 enough, Valjean even offers his nemesis forgiveness. He sees Javert for the product of society that he is; he looks at him and only sees pity rather than hatred, which would have been a much easier emotion to experience. Valjean does what few men would have the strength to do, and in the process shows his true inner-strength. Javert was fully responsible for his actions. He is a pitiable character. To his cold, singular, narrow-minded, law based logic, Valjean was a simple criminal. Nothing more, nothing less. Javert cannot look beyond the surface. He dedicated his life to preventing this villain form getting away. In this, he is as much a victim as Valjean. When he eventually realises the true errors of his ways, he is broken. He is no more. Javert is not the real villain: it is society.
And this is only one aspect of this superb novel. Javert and Valjean are not the only victims of this novel. Pushed aside, forgotten about, is the miserable Fantine. She represents the tragic state of women鈥檚 place in such a society. No one cares about her. She is just another woman in the street, another countless victim of misrule: someone to be trampled over. But, Valjean shows that life isn鈥檛 completely dark. From such corruption, a heart can remain true to itself and continue beating.
September 23, 2018
丿賵 禺丿丕貙 丿賵 禺丿丕亘丕賵乇
賲賯丿賲赖
丕賵賱: 毓賱蹖 卮乇蹖毓鬲蹖 丿乇 "爻蹖賲丕蹖 賲丨賲丿" 賲蹖 诏賵蹖丿 鬲氐賵蹖乇蹖 讴賴 鬲賵乇丕鬲 丕夭 禺丿丕 丕乇丕卅賴 賲蹖 丿賴丿 亘丕 鬲氐賵蹖乇蹖 讴賴 丕賳噩蹖賱 丕夭 丕賵 鬲乇爻蹖賲 賲蹖 讴賳丿貙 賲鬲賮丕賵鬲 丕爻鬲.
"蹖賻賴賵賻賴" 蹖賴賵丿貙 禺丿丕蹖蹖 賯賴丕乇 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘乇 賮乇丕夭 毓乇卮 賳卮爻鬲賴貙 鬲禺鬲賴 爻賳诏蹖 睾賵賱 倬蹖讴乇 亘丕賱丕蹖 爻乇 亘賳蹖 丕爻乇丕卅蹖賱 賳诏賴 賲蹖 丿丕乇丿 賵 賲蹖 诏賵蹖丿: "亘賴 禺丿丕蹖蹖 賲賳 丕賯乇丕乇 讴賳蹖丿!"
亘夭乇诏鬲乇蹖賳 賳賲賵丿 蹖賴賵賴貙 丿賴 賮乇賲丕賳蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘乇 賲賵爻蹖 賳丕夭賱 賲蹖 讴賳丿. 禺丿丕蹖 蹖賴賵丿貙 禺丿丕蹖 卮乇蹖毓鬲 丕爻鬲. 賯丕賳賵賳 賵囟毓 賲蹖 讴賳丿 賵 賯丕賳賵賳 卮讴賳 乇丕 賲噩丕夭丕鬲 賲蹖 讴賳丿 賵 賲毓乇賵賮 鬲乇蹖賳 賯丕賳賵賳 丕賵貙 丕蹖賳 讴賴 "趩卮賲 丿乇 亘乇丕亘乇 趩卮賲!"
"倬丿乇 丌爻賲丕賳蹖" 賲爻蹖丨蹖鬲貙 禺丿丕蹖蹖 賲賴乇亘丕賳 丕爻鬲. 賮乇夭賳丿卮 乇丕 賲蹖 賮乇爻鬲丿 鬲丕 亘丕乇 诏賳丕賴丕賳 丌丿賲蹖丕賳 乇丕 亘賴 丿賵卮 亘讴卮丿. 丕诏乇 丕夭 诏賱賴 丕蹖 蹖讴 亘乇賴 噩丿丕 卮賵丿 賵 丿乇 賵乇胤賴 蹖 賴賱丕讴 亘蹖賮鬲丿貙 賳賵丿 賵 賳賴 诏賵爻賮賳丿 乇丕 乇賴丕 賲蹖 讴賳丿 賵 亘賴 丿賳亘丕賱 亘乇賴 蹖 诏賲诏卮鬲賴 賲蹖 乇賵丿.
禺丿丕蹖 賲爻蹖丨蹖鬲貙 亘禺卮丕蹖卮诏乇 丕爻鬲 賵 賲毓乇賵賮 鬲乇蹖賳 賲賵毓馗賴 蹖 丕賵貙 丕蹖賳 讴賴 "诏賵賳賴 蹖 丿蹖诏乇 禺賵丿 乇丕 倬蹖卮 亘蹖丕賵乇!"
丿賵賲: 丿丕爻鬲丕蹖賮爻讴蹖 丿乇 賯爻賲鬲蹖 丕夭 "亘乇丕丿乇丕賳 讴丕乇丕賲丕夭賵賮" 诏賮鬲 賵 诏賵蹖蹖 乇丕 賲蹖 丌賵乇丿. 丿乇 蹖讴 胤乇賮貙 "丕蹖賵丕賳 讴丕乇丕賲丕夭賵賮" 亘乇丕丿乇 賵爻胤蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賲賯丕賱賴 丕蹖 賳賵卮鬲賴 賵 丿乇 丌賳 诏賮鬲賴 讴賴 賲賱讴賵鬲 賲賵毓賵丿 賲爻蹖丨蹖鬲貙 賲丨賯賯 賳賲蹖 卮賵丿 賲诏乇 亘毓丿 丕夭 丕蹖賳 讴賴 丨讴賵賲鬲 讴賱蹖爻丕 亘乇賯乇丕乇 卮賵丿.
丿乇 胤乇賮 丿蹖诏乇貙 乇丕賴亘 乇賵卮賳 囟賲蹖乇蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賲蹖 诏賵蹖丿 丨讴賵賲鬲貙 賳蹖丕夭 亘賴 賯丕賳賵賳 賲丨讴賲 丿丕乇丿 賵 賯丕賳賵賳 賲丨讴賲貙 賳蹖丕夭 亘賴 賲噩丕夭丕鬲 賯丕賳賵賳 卮讴賳. 賵賱蹖 賵賯鬲蹖 賯丕賳賵賳 卮讴賳 賲噩丕夭丕鬲 卮丿 賵 噩丕賲毓賴 丕賵 乇丕 胤乇丿 讴乇丿貙 賳蹖丕夭 亘賴 噩丕蹖蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 倬賳丕賴卮 丿賴丿貙 亘丕賵乇卮 讴賳丿貙 鬲賵亘賴 丕卮 乇丕 亘倬匕蹖乇丿 賵 丕賵 乇丕 亘丕夭 诏乇丿丕賳丿.
賵 丕诏乇 讴賱蹖爻丕 丿乇 賲賳氐亘 賲噩丕夭丕鬲诏乇蹖 賳卮爻鬲貙 賲賳氐亘 鬲賵亘賴 倬匕蹖乇蹖 丕卮 乇丕 丕夭 丿爻鬲 禺賵丕賴丿 丿丕丿.
丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘
"跇丕賳 賵丕賱跇丕賳" 賵 "跇丕賵乇"貙 丿賵 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賲毓乇賵賮 乇賲丕賳 "亘蹖賳賵丕蹖丕賳"貙 賴乇 丿賵 賲毓鬲賯丿 亘賴 禺丿丕 賴爻鬲賳丿貨 丕賲丕 禺丿丕蹖蹖 讴賴 賴乇 蹖讴 賲蹖 倬乇爻鬲丿貙 睾蹖乇 丕夭 丿蹖诏乇蹖 丕爻鬲.
跇丕賳 賵丕賱跇丕賳 賲乇丿蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘蹖爻鬲 爻丕賱 丕夭 毓賲乇卮 乇丕 丿乇 夭賳丿丕賳 亘丕 丕毓賲丕賱 卮丕賯賴 诏匕乇丕賳丿賴. 賲乇丿蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賯丕賳賵賳 丕賵 乇丕 賲噩丕夭丕鬲 讴乇丿賴 賵 倬爻 丕夭 丌賳 讴賴 丿賵乇賴 蹖 賲噩丕夭丕鬲卮 鬲賲丕賲 賲蹖 卮賵丿貙 噩丕賲毓賴 丕賵 乇丕 胤乇丿 賲蹖 讴賳丿.
丿乇 丕蹖賳 丨丕賱貙 丕爻賯賮 "賲蹖乇蹖賱" 丕賵 乇丕 賲蹖 蹖丕亘丿 賵 丿乇讴 賲蹖 讴賳丿 讴賴 丕賵貙 賳蹖丕夭 亘賴 丕賲蹖丿 丿丕乇丿. 賳蹖丕夭 亘賴 亘丕夭诏卮鬲 丿丕乇丿. 倬爻 亘賴 丕賵 丕賲蹖丿 賲蹖 丿賴丿 賵 亘丕夭卮 賲蹖 诏乇丿丕賳丿.
丕夭 丌賳 倬爻貙 跇丕賳 賵丕賱跇丕賳 賲蹖 卮賵丿 賲馗賴乇 禺丿丕蹖 賲爻蹖丨蹖. 賲乇丿蹖 讴賴 丿乇 鬲賲丕賲 毓賲乇卮貙 讴丕乇蹖 噩夭 毓卮賯 賵乇夭蹖丿賳 賳賲蹖 讴賳丿. 丨鬲蹖 亘賴 讴爻丕賳蹖 讴賴 丕夭 丌賳 賴丕 亘蹖夭丕乇 丕爻鬲.
丿乇 賲賯丕亘賱貙 跇丕賵乇 賲乇丿蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘賴 诏賮鬲賴 蹖 禺賵丿 丿乇 鬲賲丕賲 毓賲乇 蹖讴 賯丕賳賵賳 乇丕 賴賲 賳卮讴爻鬲賴. 賲乇丿蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 鬲賲丕賲 賴賲 賵 睾賲卮 丕噩乇丕蹖 賯丕賳賵賳 丕爻鬲. 鬲丕 噩丕蹖蹖 讴賴 賵賯鬲蹖 禺賵丿卮 賲乇鬲讴亘 噩乇賲蹖 賲蹖 卮賵丿貙 亘丕 爻乇 丕賮讴賳丿诏蹖 禺賵丿卮 乇丕 賲毓乇賮蹖 賲蹖 讴賳丿 鬲丕 亘賴 爻夭丕蹖 讴丕乇賴丕蹖卮 亘乇爻丿.
丕蹖賳 丿賵 卮禺氐蹖鬲貙 讴賴 蹖讴蹖 賳賲丕丿 禺丿丕蹖 賲爻蹖丨蹖 賵 丿蹖诏乇蹖 賳賲丕丿 禺丿丕蹖 蹖賴賵丿蹖 丕爻鬲貙 亘丕乇賴丕 亘丕 賴賲 丿趩丕乇 鬲賳卮 賲蹖 卮賵賳丿.
蹖讴蹖 丕夭 丕蹖賳 鬲賳卮 賴丕貙 噩丕蹖蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘乇 爻乇 "賮丕賳鬲蹖賳" 爻鬲蹖夭賴 賲蹖 讴賳賳丿. 夭賳蹖 乇賵爻倬蹖 讴賴 卮丕蹖丿 卮亘丕賴鬲蹖 亘賴 "賲乇蹖賲 賲噩丿賱蹖賴" 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮丿. 跇丕賵乇 亘蹖 丌賳 讴賴 亘賴 诏乇蹖賴 賵 夭丕乇蹖 賮丕賳鬲蹖賳 诏賵卮 丿賴丿 賵 亘賴 丿禺鬲乇 讴賵趩讴卮貙 "讴賵夭鬲"貙 丕賴賲蹖鬲蹖 亘丿賴丿貙 丕賵 乇丕 賲丨讴賵賲 亘賴 卮卮 賲丕賴 夭賳丿丕賳 賲蹖 讴賳丿貨 丕賲丕 賵丕賱跇丕賳貙 亘丕 丌賳 讴賴 賮丕賳鬲蹖賳 亘賴 丕賵 丕賴丕賳鬲 賲蹖 讴賳丿 賵 丿乇 乇賵蹖卮 鬲賮 賲蹖 丕賳丿丕夭丿貙 丿爻鬲賵乇 丌夭丕丿蹖 丕賵 乇丕 賲蹖 丿賴丿.
蹖讴蹖貙 賴蹖趩 賳乇賲卮蹖 丿乇 亘乇丕亘乇 賯丕賳賵賳 卮讴賳蹖 賳卮丕賳 賳賲蹖 丿賴丿 賵 丿蹖诏乇蹖貙 丌睾賵卮卮 乇丕 亘乇丕蹖 诏賳丕賴讴丕乇 賲蹖 诏卮丕蹖丿.
蹖讴蹖 丿蹖诏乇 丕夭 丕蹖賳 鬲賳卮 賴丕貙 丿乇 丕賳鬲賴丕蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕爻鬲. 噩丕蹖蹖 讴賴 賵丕賱跇丕賳貙 丌睾賵卮 禺賵丿 乇丕 亘乇丕蹖 禺賵丿 跇丕賵乇 賲蹖 诏卮丕蹖丿. 亘丕 丕蹖賳 讴賴 鬲賵丕賳丕蹖蹖 亘乇 讴卮鬲賳 跇丕賵乇 丿丕乇丿貙 丕賵 乇丕 夭賳丿賴 賲蹖 诏匕丕乇丿. 跇丕賵乇 賳賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳丿 丕蹖賳 乇賮鬲丕乇 乇丕 丿乇讴 讴賳丿 賵 亘賴 賴賲蹖賳 丿賱蹖賱 诏蹖噩 賲蹖 卮賵丿. 丕賵 讴賴 鬲丕 讴賳賵賳 賴賲賴 趩蹖夭 乇丕 亘丕 丿蹖丿蹖 丕賳毓胤丕賮 賳丕倬匕蹖乇 賲蹖 丿蹖丿貙 丕讴賳賵賳 丿趩丕乇 鬲夭賱夭賱 賲蹖 卮賵丿. 賲蹖 亘蹖賳丿 讴賴 賲乇丿蹖 賯丕賳賵賳 卮讴賳貙 鬲賵丕賳爻鬲賴 賲乇丿 亘夭乇诏蹖 卮賵丿. 賲蹖 亘蹖賳丿 讴賴 賴賲 亘丕夭丿丕卮鬲 讴乇丿賳 丕蹖賳 賲乇丿 丕卮鬲亘丕賴 丕爻鬲 賵 賴賲 亘丕夭丿丕卮鬲 賳讴乇丿賳卮.
賳賴丕蹖鬲丕賸貙 賵賯鬲蹖 賳賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳丿 丕蹖賳 丿賵诏丕賳诏蹖 乇丕 亘倬匕蹖乇丿貙 禺賵丿 乇丕 丿乇 乇賵丿禺丕賳賴 蹖 "爻賳" 賲蹖 丕賳丿丕夭丿 賵 禺賵丿讴卮蹖 賲蹖 讴賳丿.
賵 丕蹖賳 诏賵賳賴貙 丕夭 丿蹖丿诏丕賴 賵蹖讴鬲賵乇 賴賵诏賵貙 禺丿丕蹖 蹖賴賵丿蹖鬲貙 賲蹖 賲蹖乇丿 賵 禺丿丕蹖 賲爻蹖丨蹖鬲 亘丕賯蹖 賲蹖 賲丕賳丿.
賲賯丿賲赖
丕賵賱: 毓賱蹖 卮乇蹖毓鬲蹖 丿乇 "爻蹖賲丕蹖 賲丨賲丿" 賲蹖 诏賵蹖丿 鬲氐賵蹖乇蹖 讴賴 鬲賵乇丕鬲 丕夭 禺丿丕 丕乇丕卅賴 賲蹖 丿賴丿 亘丕 鬲氐賵蹖乇蹖 讴賴 丕賳噩蹖賱 丕夭 丕賵 鬲乇爻蹖賲 賲蹖 讴賳丿貙 賲鬲賮丕賵鬲 丕爻鬲.
"蹖賻賴賵賻賴" 蹖賴賵丿貙 禺丿丕蹖蹖 賯賴丕乇 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘乇 賮乇丕夭 毓乇卮 賳卮爻鬲賴貙 鬲禺鬲賴 爻賳诏蹖 睾賵賱 倬蹖讴乇 亘丕賱丕蹖 爻乇 亘賳蹖 丕爻乇丕卅蹖賱 賳诏賴 賲蹖 丿丕乇丿 賵 賲蹖 诏賵蹖丿: "亘賴 禺丿丕蹖蹖 賲賳 丕賯乇丕乇 讴賳蹖丿!"
亘夭乇诏鬲乇蹖賳 賳賲賵丿 蹖賴賵賴貙 丿賴 賮乇賲丕賳蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘乇 賲賵爻蹖 賳丕夭賱 賲蹖 讴賳丿. 禺丿丕蹖 蹖賴賵丿貙 禺丿丕蹖 卮乇蹖毓鬲 丕爻鬲. 賯丕賳賵賳 賵囟毓 賲蹖 讴賳丿 賵 賯丕賳賵賳 卮讴賳 乇丕 賲噩丕夭丕鬲 賲蹖 讴賳丿 賵 賲毓乇賵賮 鬲乇蹖賳 賯丕賳賵賳 丕賵貙 丕蹖賳 讴賴 "趩卮賲 丿乇 亘乇丕亘乇 趩卮賲!"
"倬丿乇 丌爻賲丕賳蹖" 賲爻蹖丨蹖鬲貙 禺丿丕蹖蹖 賲賴乇亘丕賳 丕爻鬲. 賮乇夭賳丿卮 乇丕 賲蹖 賮乇爻鬲丿 鬲丕 亘丕乇 诏賳丕賴丕賳 丌丿賲蹖丕賳 乇丕 亘賴 丿賵卮 亘讴卮丿. 丕诏乇 丕夭 诏賱賴 丕蹖 蹖讴 亘乇賴 噩丿丕 卮賵丿 賵 丿乇 賵乇胤賴 蹖 賴賱丕讴 亘蹖賮鬲丿貙 賳賵丿 賵 賳賴 诏賵爻賮賳丿 乇丕 乇賴丕 賲蹖 讴賳丿 賵 亘賴 丿賳亘丕賱 亘乇賴 蹖 诏賲诏卮鬲賴 賲蹖 乇賵丿.
禺丿丕蹖 賲爻蹖丨蹖鬲貙 亘禺卮丕蹖卮诏乇 丕爻鬲 賵 賲毓乇賵賮 鬲乇蹖賳 賲賵毓馗賴 蹖 丕賵貙 丕蹖賳 讴賴 "诏賵賳賴 蹖 丿蹖诏乇 禺賵丿 乇丕 倬蹖卮 亘蹖丕賵乇!"
丿賵賲: 丿丕爻鬲丕蹖賮爻讴蹖 丿乇 賯爻賲鬲蹖 丕夭 "亘乇丕丿乇丕賳 讴丕乇丕賲丕夭賵賮" 诏賮鬲 賵 诏賵蹖蹖 乇丕 賲蹖 丌賵乇丿. 丿乇 蹖讴 胤乇賮貙 "丕蹖賵丕賳 讴丕乇丕賲丕夭賵賮" 亘乇丕丿乇 賵爻胤蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賲賯丕賱賴 丕蹖 賳賵卮鬲賴 賵 丿乇 丌賳 诏賮鬲賴 讴賴 賲賱讴賵鬲 賲賵毓賵丿 賲爻蹖丨蹖鬲貙 賲丨賯賯 賳賲蹖 卮賵丿 賲诏乇 亘毓丿 丕夭 丕蹖賳 讴賴 丨讴賵賲鬲 讴賱蹖爻丕 亘乇賯乇丕乇 卮賵丿.
丿乇 胤乇賮 丿蹖诏乇貙 乇丕賴亘 乇賵卮賳 囟賲蹖乇蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賲蹖 诏賵蹖丿 丨讴賵賲鬲貙 賳蹖丕夭 亘賴 賯丕賳賵賳 賲丨讴賲 丿丕乇丿 賵 賯丕賳賵賳 賲丨讴賲貙 賳蹖丕夭 亘賴 賲噩丕夭丕鬲 賯丕賳賵賳 卮讴賳. 賵賱蹖 賵賯鬲蹖 賯丕賳賵賳 卮讴賳 賲噩丕夭丕鬲 卮丿 賵 噩丕賲毓賴 丕賵 乇丕 胤乇丿 讴乇丿貙 賳蹖丕夭 亘賴 噩丕蹖蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 倬賳丕賴卮 丿賴丿貙 亘丕賵乇卮 讴賳丿貙 鬲賵亘賴 丕卮 乇丕 亘倬匕蹖乇丿 賵 丕賵 乇丕 亘丕夭 诏乇丿丕賳丿.
賵 丕诏乇 讴賱蹖爻丕 丿乇 賲賳氐亘 賲噩丕夭丕鬲诏乇蹖 賳卮爻鬲貙 賲賳氐亘 鬲賵亘賴 倬匕蹖乇蹖 丕卮 乇丕 丕夭 丿爻鬲 禺賵丕賴丿 丿丕丿.
丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘
"跇丕賳 賵丕賱跇丕賳" 賵 "跇丕賵乇"貙 丿賵 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賲毓乇賵賮 乇賲丕賳 "亘蹖賳賵丕蹖丕賳"貙 賴乇 丿賵 賲毓鬲賯丿 亘賴 禺丿丕 賴爻鬲賳丿貨 丕賲丕 禺丿丕蹖蹖 讴賴 賴乇 蹖讴 賲蹖 倬乇爻鬲丿貙 睾蹖乇 丕夭 丿蹖诏乇蹖 丕爻鬲.
跇丕賳 賵丕賱跇丕賳 賲乇丿蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘蹖爻鬲 爻丕賱 丕夭 毓賲乇卮 乇丕 丿乇 夭賳丿丕賳 亘丕 丕毓賲丕賱 卮丕賯賴 诏匕乇丕賳丿賴. 賲乇丿蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賯丕賳賵賳 丕賵 乇丕 賲噩丕夭丕鬲 讴乇丿賴 賵 倬爻 丕夭 丌賳 讴賴 丿賵乇賴 蹖 賲噩丕夭丕鬲卮 鬲賲丕賲 賲蹖 卮賵丿貙 噩丕賲毓賴 丕賵 乇丕 胤乇丿 賲蹖 讴賳丿.
丿乇 丕蹖賳 丨丕賱貙 丕爻賯賮 "賲蹖乇蹖賱" 丕賵 乇丕 賲蹖 蹖丕亘丿 賵 丿乇讴 賲蹖 讴賳丿 讴賴 丕賵貙 賳蹖丕夭 亘賴 丕賲蹖丿 丿丕乇丿. 賳蹖丕夭 亘賴 亘丕夭诏卮鬲 丿丕乇丿. 倬爻 亘賴 丕賵 丕賲蹖丿 賲蹖 丿賴丿 賵 亘丕夭卮 賲蹖 诏乇丿丕賳丿.
丕夭 丌賳 倬爻貙 跇丕賳 賵丕賱跇丕賳 賲蹖 卮賵丿 賲馗賴乇 禺丿丕蹖 賲爻蹖丨蹖. 賲乇丿蹖 讴賴 丿乇 鬲賲丕賲 毓賲乇卮貙 讴丕乇蹖 噩夭 毓卮賯 賵乇夭蹖丿賳 賳賲蹖 讴賳丿. 丨鬲蹖 亘賴 讴爻丕賳蹖 讴賴 丕夭 丌賳 賴丕 亘蹖夭丕乇 丕爻鬲.
丿乇 賲賯丕亘賱貙 跇丕賵乇 賲乇丿蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘賴 诏賮鬲賴 蹖 禺賵丿 丿乇 鬲賲丕賲 毓賲乇 蹖讴 賯丕賳賵賳 乇丕 賴賲 賳卮讴爻鬲賴. 賲乇丿蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 鬲賲丕賲 賴賲 賵 睾賲卮 丕噩乇丕蹖 賯丕賳賵賳 丕爻鬲. 鬲丕 噩丕蹖蹖 讴賴 賵賯鬲蹖 禺賵丿卮 賲乇鬲讴亘 噩乇賲蹖 賲蹖 卮賵丿貙 亘丕 爻乇 丕賮讴賳丿诏蹖 禺賵丿卮 乇丕 賲毓乇賮蹖 賲蹖 讴賳丿 鬲丕 亘賴 爻夭丕蹖 讴丕乇賴丕蹖卮 亘乇爻丿.
丕蹖賳 丿賵 卮禺氐蹖鬲貙 讴賴 蹖讴蹖 賳賲丕丿 禺丿丕蹖 賲爻蹖丨蹖 賵 丿蹖诏乇蹖 賳賲丕丿 禺丿丕蹖 蹖賴賵丿蹖 丕爻鬲貙 亘丕乇賴丕 亘丕 賴賲 丿趩丕乇 鬲賳卮 賲蹖 卮賵賳丿.
蹖讴蹖 丕夭 丕蹖賳 鬲賳卮 賴丕貙 噩丕蹖蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘乇 爻乇 "賮丕賳鬲蹖賳" 爻鬲蹖夭賴 賲蹖 讴賳賳丿. 夭賳蹖 乇賵爻倬蹖 讴賴 卮丕蹖丿 卮亘丕賴鬲蹖 亘賴 "賲乇蹖賲 賲噩丿賱蹖賴" 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮丿. 跇丕賵乇 亘蹖 丌賳 讴賴 亘賴 诏乇蹖賴 賵 夭丕乇蹖 賮丕賳鬲蹖賳 诏賵卮 丿賴丿 賵 亘賴 丿禺鬲乇 讴賵趩讴卮貙 "讴賵夭鬲"貙 丕賴賲蹖鬲蹖 亘丿賴丿貙 丕賵 乇丕 賲丨讴賵賲 亘賴 卮卮 賲丕賴 夭賳丿丕賳 賲蹖 讴賳丿貨 丕賲丕 賵丕賱跇丕賳貙 亘丕 丌賳 讴賴 賮丕賳鬲蹖賳 亘賴 丕賵 丕賴丕賳鬲 賲蹖 讴賳丿 賵 丿乇 乇賵蹖卮 鬲賮 賲蹖 丕賳丿丕夭丿貙 丿爻鬲賵乇 丌夭丕丿蹖 丕賵 乇丕 賲蹖 丿賴丿.
蹖讴蹖貙 賴蹖趩 賳乇賲卮蹖 丿乇 亘乇丕亘乇 賯丕賳賵賳 卮讴賳蹖 賳卮丕賳 賳賲蹖 丿賴丿 賵 丿蹖诏乇蹖貙 丌睾賵卮卮 乇丕 亘乇丕蹖 诏賳丕賴讴丕乇 賲蹖 诏卮丕蹖丿.
蹖讴蹖 丿蹖诏乇 丕夭 丕蹖賳 鬲賳卮 賴丕貙 丿乇 丕賳鬲賴丕蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕爻鬲. 噩丕蹖蹖 讴賴 賵丕賱跇丕賳貙 丌睾賵卮 禺賵丿 乇丕 亘乇丕蹖 禺賵丿 跇丕賵乇 賲蹖 诏卮丕蹖丿. 亘丕 丕蹖賳 讴賴 鬲賵丕賳丕蹖蹖 亘乇 讴卮鬲賳 跇丕賵乇 丿丕乇丿貙 丕賵 乇丕 夭賳丿賴 賲蹖 诏匕丕乇丿. 跇丕賵乇 賳賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳丿 丕蹖賳 乇賮鬲丕乇 乇丕 丿乇讴 讴賳丿 賵 亘賴 賴賲蹖賳 丿賱蹖賱 诏蹖噩 賲蹖 卮賵丿. 丕賵 讴賴 鬲丕 讴賳賵賳 賴賲賴 趩蹖夭 乇丕 亘丕 丿蹖丿蹖 丕賳毓胤丕賮 賳丕倬匕蹖乇 賲蹖 丿蹖丿貙 丕讴賳賵賳 丿趩丕乇 鬲夭賱夭賱 賲蹖 卮賵丿. 賲蹖 亘蹖賳丿 讴賴 賲乇丿蹖 賯丕賳賵賳 卮讴賳貙 鬲賵丕賳爻鬲賴 賲乇丿 亘夭乇诏蹖 卮賵丿. 賲蹖 亘蹖賳丿 讴賴 賴賲 亘丕夭丿丕卮鬲 讴乇丿賳 丕蹖賳 賲乇丿 丕卮鬲亘丕賴 丕爻鬲 賵 賴賲 亘丕夭丿丕卮鬲 賳讴乇丿賳卮.
賳賴丕蹖鬲丕賸貙 賵賯鬲蹖 賳賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳丿 丕蹖賳 丿賵诏丕賳诏蹖 乇丕 亘倬匕蹖乇丿貙 禺賵丿 乇丕 丿乇 乇賵丿禺丕賳賴 蹖 "爻賳" 賲蹖 丕賳丿丕夭丿 賵 禺賵丿讴卮蹖 賲蹖 讴賳丿.
賵 丕蹖賳 诏賵賳賴貙 丕夭 丿蹖丿诏丕賴 賵蹖讴鬲賵乇 賴賵诏賵貙 禺丿丕蹖 蹖賴賵丿蹖鬲貙 賲蹖 賲蹖乇丿 賵 禺丿丕蹖 賲爻蹖丨蹖鬲 亘丕賯蹖 賲蹖 賲丕賳丿.
December 24, 2020
Si usted lector se encuentra entre los miles y miles de entregados admiradores de esta obra tengo el deber de advertirle que las palabras que leer谩n a continuaci贸n pueden herir su sensibilidad.
Los miserables es la narraci贸n de una lucha a muerte. Una lucha que m谩s o menos se podr铆a presentar de la siguiente manera:
Esta ingenua idea del hombre junto con la descarada parcialidad exhibida no hubieran sido suficientes para molestarme en la forma en la que lo ha hecho. Es m谩s, el estilo de V铆ctor Hugo, en contra de la opini贸n de Flaubert 鈥攊ncorrecto y vulgar鈥� me ha parecido que alcanza, en no pocas ocasiones, una gran altura, que su lirismo apasionado, potente, su prosa derrochadora y rica me habr铆an compensado sobradamente tal candidez y tan escandaloso favoritismo. Pero por lo que no hay compensaci贸n posible, lo que soy incapaz de perdonar, es su portentosa necesidad de comunicarnos sus vastos conocimientos sobre los temas m谩s variopintos y aburridos, su viciosa inclinaci贸n a apabullarnos con detalles y explicaciones cargantes e innecesarias, evitando as铆 al torpe lector todo esfuerzo de su escasa imaginaci贸n, su tendencia al retorcimiento de la historia hasta l铆mites par贸dicos, su gusto por los hechos sorpresivos, coincidencias inexplicables, encuentros inveros铆miles y efectistas, su grave inclinaci贸n al melodrama, a los amores castos y desgarradores, a los odios desaforados, a las intolerables miserias, su devoci贸n por personajes que son encarnaciones puras, simples y asexuadas, s铆mbolos de lo m谩s excelso y lo m谩s bajo del ser humano y siempre bajo el prisma rom谩ntico que sit煤a lo emocional muy por encima de lo racional.
Conste que avis茅.
Los miserables es la narraci贸n de una lucha a muerte. Una lucha que m谩s o menos se podr铆a presentar de la siguiente manera:
En la esquina derecha del ring, distinguido por una luz interior, de una magnificencia sobrehumana, vejado por las mayores injusticias, h茅roe de las m谩s despiadadas tragedias, ataviado con un abrigo amarillento, ra铆do y entallado, con sombrero deformado: el 鈥淓X PRESIDIARIO ANGUSTIADO鈥溾€EAAAAAN VALJEAAAAN, 隆隆隆el 茅xito del hombre, la encarnaci贸n del perd贸n!!!Tan desigual combate se resuelve, como no pod铆a ser de otra manera, por K.O en la quinta parte, libro tercero. Un triunfo que lleva aparejada la gran victoria de la idea que vertebra toda la novela: la bondad innata del hombre, esa bondad que permitir谩, m谩s tarde o m谩s temprano y gracias a la educaci贸n universal, alcanzar el para铆so en la tierra.
Al otro lado, portador de enormes patillas, engalanado con un levit贸n largo y esgrimiendo un garrote amenazador, con la mirada oscura, la boca fruncida y temible, y un gesto feroz de mando: 鈥淧ERRO DE PRESAAAAAA鈥� JAVEEEEERT, 隆隆隆representante de la ley ciega, de la imposibilidad de la redenci贸n, emisario plenipotenciario del castigo implacable y terrible como 煤nica respuesta al delito!!!
Esta ingenua idea del hombre junto con la descarada parcialidad exhibida no hubieran sido suficientes para molestarme en la forma en la que lo ha hecho. Es m谩s, el estilo de V铆ctor Hugo, en contra de la opini贸n de Flaubert 鈥攊ncorrecto y vulgar鈥� me ha parecido que alcanza, en no pocas ocasiones, una gran altura, que su lirismo apasionado, potente, su prosa derrochadora y rica me habr铆an compensado sobradamente tal candidez y tan escandaloso favoritismo. Pero por lo que no hay compensaci贸n posible, lo que soy incapaz de perdonar, es su portentosa necesidad de comunicarnos sus vastos conocimientos sobre los temas m谩s variopintos y aburridos, su viciosa inclinaci贸n a apabullarnos con detalles y explicaciones cargantes e innecesarias, evitando as铆 al torpe lector todo esfuerzo de su escasa imaginaci贸n, su tendencia al retorcimiento de la historia hasta l铆mites par贸dicos, su gusto por los hechos sorpresivos, coincidencias inexplicables, encuentros inveros铆miles y efectistas, su grave inclinaci贸n al melodrama, a los amores castos y desgarradores, a los odios desaforados, a las intolerables miserias, su devoci贸n por personajes que son encarnaciones puras, simples y asexuadas, s铆mbolos de lo m谩s excelso y lo m谩s bajo del ser humano y siempre bajo el prisma rom谩ntico que sit煤a lo emocional muy por encima de lo racional.
Conste que avis茅.
November 20, 2016
It is a couple of years since I read and reviewed this book. I asked a question in a spoiler, "How come Valjean never recognised Th茅nardier no matter how many times he met him?" And just now I had an ah-ha moment and realised it was because Victor Hugo himself might well have had prosopagnosia.
How did I get to this? I reviewed Oliver Sacks' On the Move and made a point about his prosopagnosia, face blindness, I have it too. It just struck me that although it is very odd for the hero never to recognise his enemy, if the author had prosopagnosia he wouldn't think it at all strange that Valjean might have people he never recognised (as well as those he always did and those he sometimes did) because that's how it is with face blindness. Of course, I will never know for sure, but it makes more sense to me to think of it this way.
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I loved this book. I was expecting something somewhere between Trollope's extraordinary writing and Zola's wonderful stories - and I got it! Great literature indeed, and what a character Jean Valjean is.
His story is almost biblical, one of redemption. One who travels the path from evil to good with scarcely a stumble but many an obstruction along the way. Hugo uses the book, much as Tolstoy liked to do, to expound his personal philosophy and also the condition of the peasants, les miserables.
If you like classics and sagas, its a good holiday book. Start before you go, read it on the plane, a little by the pool and when lying on the beach, and then when you get home, there will still be more to read about these people who are your friends and family now.
How did I get to this? I reviewed Oliver Sacks' On the Move and made a point about his prosopagnosia, face blindness, I have it too. It just struck me that although it is very odd for the hero never to recognise his enemy, if the author had prosopagnosia he wouldn't think it at all strange that Valjean might have people he never recognised (as well as those he always did and those he sometimes did) because that's how it is with face blindness. Of course, I will never know for sure, but it makes more sense to me to think of it this way.
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I loved this book. I was expecting something somewhere between Trollope's extraordinary writing and Zola's wonderful stories - and I got it! Great literature indeed, and what a character Jean Valjean is.
His story is almost biblical, one of redemption. One who travels the path from evil to good with scarcely a stumble but many an obstruction along the way. Hugo uses the book, much as Tolstoy liked to do, to expound his personal philosophy and also the condition of the peasants, les miserables.
If you like classics and sagas, its a good holiday book. Start before you go, read it on the plane, a little by the pool and when lying on the beach, and then when you get home, there will still be more to read about these people who are your friends and family now.
January 23, 2025
If I don't analyze it deeply, this book is indeed very moving. But my genuine feeling is that this emotional impact isn't authentic. I believe that "humanity" should be genuine without needing to be grand. Several characters in Les Mis茅rables seem mass-produced without distinct personalities. I think a first-rate work doesn't just move people but also shakes them and makes them think. During my reading, I didn't experience this. While Victor Hugo crafted a "miserable world," the tragic fate of the characters didn't make me reflect on humanity; instead, it emphasized the grandeur in their misery.
And I really I don't see genuine humanity in the main characters - Jean Valjean and Fantine.
Jean Valjean, who was imprisoned for 19 years as a convict, was already at the bottom of society before his imprisonment. After being released, he was repeatedly discriminated against, struggling at the bottom of society. I'm curious about the foundation that allowed him to become the saintly figure Hugo portrayed. How did someone who endured decades of suffering and injustice at the bottom of society become such a benevolent person with no insight into human nature, indiscriminately doing good deeds? You could say he was influenced by Bishop Myriel, but even if he was reformed, he shouldn't lack insight into human nature, blindly doing good deeds like a saint. Such a saintly image is more plausible for someone who grew up in comfort and never experienced hardship or the coldness of society, as they might have greater sympathy for the poor without distinguishing between good and evil.
As for Bishop Myriel, I have no objections because he at least had the foundation to become the kind of person he was.
Then there's Fantine, a person who grew up in the lowest class of society. The book describes her as 鈥漞merging from the unfathomable depths of a dark society," not knowing her parents, without a surname, family, or given name. She started working at 10 and moved to Paris at 15. Despite such a harsh upbringing, she remained "virtuous." While I don't dispute her kindness, being kind doesn't mean being naive and trusting everyone. Unlike a sheltered lady from a fallen family who had never experienced society's darkness, Fantine should have been wary. How could a girl from such a background still be so trusting? Was the "dark society" not dark enough to strip her of her innocence? Even if she was naturally pure, after being abandoned, pregnant, and giving birth, how could she still trust a couple simply because they had 2 children, believing they were kind enough to entrust them with her child? Why didn't she check on her daughter after losing her job, especially when the couple deceived her, claiming Cosette was seriously ill? Was it really "misery for the sake of misery"? What environment shaped Fantine's character to be so pure and trusting, as if to contrast with society's darkness?
Another puzzling part is when Jean Valjean confesses and is re-imprisoned. His original crimes were accounted for by his 19 years in prison; he was released legally, so he was no longer guilty. Though he stole Bishop Myriel's silver, the bishop didn't expose him and even claimed it was a gift. Therefore, this crime doesn't exist. The only reason for his re-imprisonment was the misunderstanding with the chimney sweep child over the forty sous, but he didn't intentionally rob the child. Why did he confess to a crime he didn't commit, only to later escape prison to rescue Cosette? It seems contradictory. Admitting to a crime he didn't commit, then escaping to save Cosette, seems unnecessary, perhaps just to highlight his saintly image against society's darkness.
Other aspects, such as Jean Valjean's successful career transformation and his mayoral tenure, and his successful escapes, make him seem superhuman, except for his lack of insight into human nature.
This romanticized work's detachment from reality is quite prominent.
This might explain why Les Mis茅rables is widely renowned among the general public but holds a lower status in Western academia, which often criticizes the moral and political romanticism it represents.
However, it resonates well with the broad masses by idealizing certain lower-class individuals to highlight "the darkness of capitalist society," aligning with some cultural narratives that sympathize with the proletariat and critique capitalism. The historical backdrop and Hugo鈥檚 fame contribute to its high reputation in some regions.
But I believe outstanding works should depict genuine humanity, regardless of class. Without this, no amount of historical context or length can make a work truly exceptional.
Before reading Les Mis茅rables, I admired Hugo greatly, but after reading it, I'm no longer as enamored. Many enjoy poetic lies, but recognizing them as lies is unbearable. This encapsulates my feelings about this book. I no longer idolize Hugo, though I still respect him. He had a strong humanitarian spirit, which is commendable, but from a literary or novelistic perspective, I don't particularly like Les Mis茅rables.
Perhaps if I'd read it in middle school, I would have appreciated the "grand" characters more. Now, I prefer realistic characters that clear-headedly reflect life while giving them a somewhat hopeful ending. I favor realist literature with fair endings, offering hope while staying true to life's realities, rather than idealizing characters only to give them tragic fates.
2.4 / 5 stars
And I really I don't see genuine humanity in the main characters - Jean Valjean and Fantine.
Jean Valjean, who was imprisoned for 19 years as a convict, was already at the bottom of society before his imprisonment. After being released, he was repeatedly discriminated against, struggling at the bottom of society. I'm curious about the foundation that allowed him to become the saintly figure Hugo portrayed. How did someone who endured decades of suffering and injustice at the bottom of society become such a benevolent person with no insight into human nature, indiscriminately doing good deeds? You could say he was influenced by Bishop Myriel, but even if he was reformed, he shouldn't lack insight into human nature, blindly doing good deeds like a saint. Such a saintly image is more plausible for someone who grew up in comfort and never experienced hardship or the coldness of society, as they might have greater sympathy for the poor without distinguishing between good and evil.
As for Bishop Myriel, I have no objections because he at least had the foundation to become the kind of person he was.
Then there's Fantine, a person who grew up in the lowest class of society. The book describes her as 鈥漞merging from the unfathomable depths of a dark society," not knowing her parents, without a surname, family, or given name. She started working at 10 and moved to Paris at 15. Despite such a harsh upbringing, she remained "virtuous." While I don't dispute her kindness, being kind doesn't mean being naive and trusting everyone. Unlike a sheltered lady from a fallen family who had never experienced society's darkness, Fantine should have been wary. How could a girl from such a background still be so trusting? Was the "dark society" not dark enough to strip her of her innocence? Even if she was naturally pure, after being abandoned, pregnant, and giving birth, how could she still trust a couple simply because they had 2 children, believing they were kind enough to entrust them with her child? Why didn't she check on her daughter after losing her job, especially when the couple deceived her, claiming Cosette was seriously ill? Was it really "misery for the sake of misery"? What environment shaped Fantine's character to be so pure and trusting, as if to contrast with society's darkness?
Another puzzling part is when Jean Valjean confesses and is re-imprisoned. His original crimes were accounted for by his 19 years in prison; he was released legally, so he was no longer guilty. Though he stole Bishop Myriel's silver, the bishop didn't expose him and even claimed it was a gift. Therefore, this crime doesn't exist. The only reason for his re-imprisonment was the misunderstanding with the chimney sweep child over the forty sous, but he didn't intentionally rob the child. Why did he confess to a crime he didn't commit, only to later escape prison to rescue Cosette? It seems contradictory. Admitting to a crime he didn't commit, then escaping to save Cosette, seems unnecessary, perhaps just to highlight his saintly image against society's darkness.
Other aspects, such as Jean Valjean's successful career transformation and his mayoral tenure, and his successful escapes, make him seem superhuman, except for his lack of insight into human nature.
This romanticized work's detachment from reality is quite prominent.
This might explain why Les Mis茅rables is widely renowned among the general public but holds a lower status in Western academia, which often criticizes the moral and political romanticism it represents.
However, it resonates well with the broad masses by idealizing certain lower-class individuals to highlight "the darkness of capitalist society," aligning with some cultural narratives that sympathize with the proletariat and critique capitalism. The historical backdrop and Hugo鈥檚 fame contribute to its high reputation in some regions.
But I believe outstanding works should depict genuine humanity, regardless of class. Without this, no amount of historical context or length can make a work truly exceptional.
Before reading Les Mis茅rables, I admired Hugo greatly, but after reading it, I'm no longer as enamored. Many enjoy poetic lies, but recognizing them as lies is unbearable. This encapsulates my feelings about this book. I no longer idolize Hugo, though I still respect him. He had a strong humanitarian spirit, which is commendable, but from a literary or novelistic perspective, I don't particularly like Les Mis茅rables.
Perhaps if I'd read it in middle school, I would have appreciated the "grand" characters more. Now, I prefer realistic characters that clear-headedly reflect life while giving them a somewhat hopeful ending. I favor realist literature with fair endings, offering hope while staying true to life's realities, rather than idealizing characters only to give them tragic fates.
2.4 / 5 stars
September 8, 2017
"We can only suppose that its new life as a musical - and what an appropriate fate for that most operatic novelist - will help to bring Les Mis茅rables to the attention of a new generation of readers, reminding them perhaps that the abuses Hugo catalogues are still alive elsewhere, awaiting their own chroniclers in the brave new world of the twenty first century." - Peter Washington, Introduction
There are few novels which one can consider true masterpieces and among the greatest pieces of writing ever written. The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Complete Sherlock Holmes and Complete Stories and Poems number among these as examples. However there are some momentous epics in terms of themes such as Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and this great work: Les Mis茅rables, which despite their length are well worth the investment.
Les Mis茅rables, as a novel, is far grander than its worthy adaptations (of which the 1998 film with Liam Neeson and the stageplay are the finer works). It is not the simple tale of Jean Valjean escaping from Inspector Javert. It is so much more. It is: a love story, the love story of France as well as a romance; a tragedy, a catalogue of the miserable citizens of historic France; a historical chronicle, a mapping out of the cultural landscape of one image of time; above all it is a literary masterpiece.
Victor Hugo may have his failings in this novel. At times he falls into pompous verbosity, rambling on about subjects which appear to lack relevance to the story. However, what he has achieved in this novel is nothing short of remarkable. This is literature at its finest, a book recording the suffering and beauty of humanity and reflecting upon it in language which is both complex and simple despite translation. Speaking of translation, this version by Charles E. Wilbour appears quite excellent (if old fashioned). And therefore anyone interested in reading this work is encouraged to get a true unabridged version. Reading the abridged versions will only ruin the charm of the story and perhaps your understanding of the story itself.
There are few novels which one can consider true masterpieces and among the greatest pieces of writing ever written. The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Complete Sherlock Holmes and Complete Stories and Poems number among these as examples. However there are some momentous epics in terms of themes such as Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and this great work: Les Mis茅rables, which despite their length are well worth the investment.
Les Mis茅rables, as a novel, is far grander than its worthy adaptations (of which the 1998 film with Liam Neeson and the stageplay are the finer works). It is not the simple tale of Jean Valjean escaping from Inspector Javert. It is so much more. It is: a love story, the love story of France as well as a romance; a tragedy, a catalogue of the miserable citizens of historic France; a historical chronicle, a mapping out of the cultural landscape of one image of time; above all it is a literary masterpiece.
Victor Hugo may have his failings in this novel. At times he falls into pompous verbosity, rambling on about subjects which appear to lack relevance to the story. However, what he has achieved in this novel is nothing short of remarkable. This is literature at its finest, a book recording the suffering and beauty of humanity and reflecting upon it in language which is both complex and simple despite translation. Speaking of translation, this version by Charles E. Wilbour appears quite excellent (if old fashioned). And therefore anyone interested in reading this work is encouraged to get a true unabridged version. Reading the abridged versions will only ruin the charm of the story and perhaps your understanding of the story itself.
November 17, 2022
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违蟺维蟻蠂慰蠀谓 尾喂尾位委伪 蟺慰蠀 蠈蟿伪谓 苇蠂蔚喂蟼 慰位慰魏位畏蟻蠋蟽蔚喂 蟿畏谓 伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽畏 蟿慰蠀蟼, 谓喂蠋胃蔚喂蟼 蔚蠀位慰纬畏渭苇谓慰蟼. 螘谓伪 蟿苇蟿慰喂慰 尾喂尾位委慰 蔚委谓伪喂 魏伪喂 慰喂 螁胃位喂慰喂. 螆谓伪蟼"蠁维蟻慰蟼" 伪谓胃蟻蠅蟺喂维蟼 蟺慰蠀 胃伪 蟽蠀纬魏喂谓萎蟽蔚喂 魏伪喂 胃伪 伪谓维蠄蔚喂 蟿畏 芦蠁位蠈纬伪禄 蟺慰蠀 魏蟻蠉尾慰蠀渭蔚 蠈位慰喂 渭苇蟽伪 渭伪蟼, 蠈蟽慰 螁胃位喂慰喂 魏伪喂 伪谓 蔚委渭伪蟽蟿蔚!
韦慰 尾喂尾位委慰 渭伪蟼 蔚尉喂蟽蟿慰蟻蔚委 蟿畏 魏伪胃畏渭蔚蟻喂谓蠈蟿畏蟿伪 魏伪蟿慰委魏蠅谓 蟿慰蠀 螤伪蟻喂蟽喂慰蠉, 未喂伪蠁慰蟻蔚蟿喂魏蠋谓 慰喂魏慰谓慰渭喂魏蠋谓 蟽蟿蟻蠅渭维蟿蠅谓, 魏伪喂 渭伪蟼 蟺蔚蟻喂纬蟻维蠁蔚喂 蟿畏谓 伪胃位喂蠈蟿畏蟿维 蟿慰蠀蟼. 螁位位慰喂 纬喂伪蟿委 萎蟿伪谓 维胃位喂慰喂 蟽蟿畏 蠄蠀蠂萎 魏伪喂 维位位慰喂 纬喂伪蟿委 畏 魏慰喂谓蠅谓委伪 蟿慰蠀蟼 蔚尉伪胃位委蠅蟽蔚 魏伪喂 蟿慰蠀蟼 蔚尉伪谓维纬魏伪蟽蔚 谓伪 味慰蠀谓 蟽蟿慰 蟺蔚蟻喂胃蠋蟻喂慰. 螌渭蠅蟼, 畏 魏伪蟻未喂维 蟿蠅谓 蟺蔚蟻喂蟽蟽慰蟿苇蟻蠅谓 蟺伪蟻苇渭蔚喂谓蔚 味蔚蟽蟿萎 蠈蟽伪 蠂蟿蠀蟺萎渭伪蟿伪 魏伪喂 伪谓 蔚委蠂蔚 未蔚蠂胃蔚委 蟿慰 魏慰蟻渭委, 畏 伪尉喂慰蟺蟻苇蟺蔚喂伪 魏伪喂 畏 蠉蟺伪蟻尉萎 蟿慰蠀蟼 畏 委未喂伪.
螤伪蟻蠈蟿喂 蠈位慰喂 慰喂 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿萎蟻蔚蟼 伪谓伪位蠉胃畏魏伪谓 蠀蟺苇蟻 蟿慰蠀 未苇慰谓蟿慰蟼 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰谓 芦渭蔚纬维位慰禄 螔委魏蟿蠅蟻 螣蠀纬魏蠋, 慰 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿喂魏蠈蟼 蟺蟻蠅蟿伪纬蠅谓喂蟽蟿萎蟼 萎蟿伪谓 慰 螕喂维谓谓畏蟼 螒纬喂维谓谓畏蟼. 螆谓伪蟼 蟽蠉纬蠂蟻慰谓慰蟼鈥� 螜畏蟽慰蠉蟼 围蟻喂蟽蟿蠈蟼 慰 慰蟺慰委慰蟼 伪蟺苇未蔚喂尉蔚 蠈蟿喂 渭委伪 渭蠈谓慰 蟽蟿喂纬渭萎, 伪蟻魏蔚委 纬喂伪 谓伪 伪位位维尉蔚喂 畏 魏慰蟽渭慰胃蔚蠅蟻委伪 蟽慰蠀. 螌蟿喂 蠈蟽慰 "螁胃位喂慰蟼" 魏伪喂 伪谓 伪谓 苇蠂蔚喂蟼 蠀蟺维蟻尉蔚喂, 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委蟼 谓伪 尾慰畏胃萎蟽蔚喂蟼 蟿慰谓 蔚伪蠀蟿蠈 蟽慰蠀 魏伪喂 蟿慰蠀蟼 纬蠉蟻蠅 蟽慰蠀. 螣 萎蟻蠅伪蟼 萎蟿伪谓 蠀蟺蔚蟻尾慰位喂魏维 蟽蠀渭蟺伪胃萎蟼 魏伪喂 芦螁纬喂慰蟼禄, 伪位位维 伪蠀蟿萎 畏 蟽蠀渭蟺蔚蟻喂蠁慰蟻维 苇魏蟻蠀尾蔚 苇谓伪 蟺蟻慰蟽蠅蟺喂魏蠈 蟽蟿慰蠂慰. 围蟻蔚喂伪味蠈蟿伪谓 蔚尉喂位苇蠅蟽畏 魏伪喂 纬喂伪 谓伪 蟿慰 蟺蔚蟿蠉蠂蔚喂 伪蟺慰蠁维蟽喂蟽蔚 谓伪 未慰胃蔚委 慰位慰魏位畏蟻蠅蟿喂魏维 蟽蔚 渭委伪 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺喂谓畏 蠉蟺伪蟻尉畏. 危蔚 渭委伪 蔚尉伪胃位喂蠅渭苇谓畏 蠄蠀蠂慰蠉位伪, 蟺慰蠀 蟿伪 渭维蟿喂伪 蟿畏蟼, 魏维胃蔚 蠁蠈蟻渭伪 蟺慰蠀 蟿慰谓 魏慰喂蟿慰蠉蟽伪谓, 渭伪蟻蟿蠀蟻慰蠉蟽伪谓 蟿畏谓 伪蟺苇蟻伪谓蟿畏 蔚蠀纬谓蠅渭慰蟽蠉谓畏 蟺蟻慰蟼 蟿慰 蟺蟻蠈蟽蠅蟺蠈 蟿慰蠀.
韦慰 尾喂尾位委慰 蟿慰 蟿苇位蔚喂蠅蟽伪 蟽蔚 渭蠈位喂蟼 渭委伪 蔚尾未慰渭维未伪 (蟺慰蠀 蔚委谓伪喂 蟿伪 蠂蟻蠈谓喂伪, 蠅蟻伪委伪 蠂蟻蠈谓喂伪 馃ぃ) 蟺伪蟻' 蠈位慰 蟺慰蠀 纬蟻维蠁蟿畏魏蔚 蟽蠂蔚未蠈谓 蟺蟻喂谓 伪蟺蠈 未蠉慰 伪喂蠋谓蔚蟼. 螘委蠂蔚 蟿蠈蟽慰 蠅蟻伪委伪 蟻慰萎, 蟺位慰蠉蟽喂慰 位蔚尉喂位蠈纬喂慰, 位蔚蟺蟿慰渭蔚蟻萎 蟺蔚蟻喂纬蟻伪蠁萎 蟿慰蠀 螤伪蟻喂蟽喂慰蠉 魏伪喂 蟿蠅谓 未蠉慰 芦魏蠈蟽渭蠅谓禄 蟺慰蠀 魏蠀蟻喂伪蟻蠂慰蠉蟽伪谓 蔚魏蔚委谓畏 蟿畏谓 蔚蟺慰蠂萎, 魏伪胃蠋蟼 魏伪喂 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿萎蟻蔚蟼 蟿蠈蟽慰 魏伪位慰纬蟻伪渭渭苇谓慰蠀蟼 蟺慰蠀 未蔚谓 伪蠁萎谓蔚喂 魏伪谓苇谓伪 蟺蔚蟻喂胃蠋蟻喂慰 伪渭蠁喂蟽尾萎蟿畏蟽畏蟼 纬喂伪 蟿畏谓 "蟺苇谓伪" 蟿慰蠀 螣蠀纬魏蠋.
违蟺苇蟻慰蠂慰, 渭伪纬蔚蠀蟿喂魏蠈, 蟽蠀纬魏喂谓畏蟿喂魏蠈. 螆谓伪 尾喂尾位委慰 蟺慰蠀 伪谓萎魏蔚喂 蟽蟿慰 螤维谓胃蔚慰谓 蟿畏蟼 位慰纬慰蟿蔚蠂谓委伪蟼 未喂魏伪委蠅蟼. 螆谓伪 尾喂尾位委慰 蟺慰蠀 慰蠉蟿蔚 蟿慰 10/10 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委 谓伪 蟿慰 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿畏蟻委蟽蔚喂, 慰蠉蟿蔚 苇谓伪 渭喂魏蟻蠈 (未喂胃蠀蟻伪渭尾喂魏蠈) review 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委 谓
违蟺维蟻蠂慰蠀谓 尾喂尾位委伪 蟺慰蠀 蠈蟿伪谓 苇蠂蔚喂蟼 慰位慰魏位畏蟻蠋蟽蔚喂 蟿畏谓 伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽畏 蟿慰蠀蟼, 谓喂蠋胃蔚喂蟼 蔚蠀位慰纬畏渭苇谓慰蟼. 螘谓伪 蟿苇蟿慰喂慰 尾喂尾位委慰 蔚委谓伪喂 魏伪喂 慰喂 螁胃位喂慰喂. 螆谓伪蟼"蠁维蟻慰蟼" 伪谓胃蟻蠅蟺喂维蟼 蟺慰蠀 胃伪 蟽蠀纬魏喂谓萎蟽蔚喂 魏伪喂 胃伪 伪谓维蠄蔚喂 蟿畏 芦蠁位蠈纬伪禄 蟺慰蠀 魏蟻蠉尾慰蠀渭蔚 蠈位慰喂 渭苇蟽伪 渭伪蟼, 蠈蟽慰 螁胃位喂慰喂 魏伪喂 伪谓 蔚委渭伪蟽蟿蔚!
韦慰 尾喂尾位委慰 渭伪蟼 蔚尉喂蟽蟿慰蟻蔚委 蟿畏 魏伪胃畏渭蔚蟻喂谓蠈蟿畏蟿伪 魏伪蟿慰委魏蠅谓 蟿慰蠀 螤伪蟻喂蟽喂慰蠉, 未喂伪蠁慰蟻蔚蟿喂魏蠋谓 慰喂魏慰谓慰渭喂魏蠋谓 蟽蟿蟻蠅渭维蟿蠅谓, 魏伪喂 渭伪蟼 蟺蔚蟻喂纬蟻维蠁蔚喂 蟿畏谓 伪胃位喂蠈蟿畏蟿维 蟿慰蠀蟼. 螁位位慰喂 纬喂伪蟿委 萎蟿伪谓 维胃位喂慰喂 蟽蟿畏 蠄蠀蠂萎 魏伪喂 维位位慰喂 纬喂伪蟿委 畏 魏慰喂谓蠅谓委伪 蟿慰蠀蟼 蔚尉伪胃位委蠅蟽蔚 魏伪喂 蟿慰蠀蟼 蔚尉伪谓维纬魏伪蟽蔚 谓伪 味慰蠀谓 蟽蟿慰 蟺蔚蟻喂胃蠋蟻喂慰. 螌渭蠅蟼, 畏 魏伪蟻未喂维 蟿蠅谓 蟺蔚蟻喂蟽蟽慰蟿苇蟻蠅谓 蟺伪蟻苇渭蔚喂谓蔚 味蔚蟽蟿萎 蠈蟽伪 蠂蟿蠀蟺萎渭伪蟿伪 魏伪喂 伪谓 蔚委蠂蔚 未蔚蠂胃蔚委 蟿慰 魏慰蟻渭委, 畏 伪尉喂慰蟺蟻苇蟺蔚喂伪 魏伪喂 畏 蠉蟺伪蟻尉萎 蟿慰蠀蟼 畏 委未喂伪.
螤伪蟻蠈蟿喂 蠈位慰喂 慰喂 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿萎蟻蔚蟼 伪谓伪位蠉胃畏魏伪谓 蠀蟺苇蟻 蟿慰蠀 未苇慰谓蟿慰蟼 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰谓 芦渭蔚纬维位慰禄 螔委魏蟿蠅蟻 螣蠀纬魏蠋, 慰 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿喂魏蠈蟼 蟺蟻蠅蟿伪纬蠅谓喂蟽蟿萎蟼 萎蟿伪谓 慰 螕喂维谓谓畏蟼 螒纬喂维谓谓畏蟼. 螆谓伪蟼 蟽蠉纬蠂蟻慰谓慰蟼鈥� 螜畏蟽慰蠉蟼 围蟻喂蟽蟿蠈蟼 慰 慰蟺慰委慰蟼 伪蟺苇未蔚喂尉蔚 蠈蟿喂 渭委伪 渭蠈谓慰 蟽蟿喂纬渭萎, 伪蟻魏蔚委 纬喂伪 谓伪 伪位位维尉蔚喂 畏 魏慰蟽渭慰胃蔚蠅蟻委伪 蟽慰蠀. 螌蟿喂 蠈蟽慰 "螁胃位喂慰蟼" 魏伪喂 伪谓 伪谓 苇蠂蔚喂蟼 蠀蟺维蟻尉蔚喂, 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委蟼 谓伪 尾慰畏胃萎蟽蔚喂蟼 蟿慰谓 蔚伪蠀蟿蠈 蟽慰蠀 魏伪喂 蟿慰蠀蟼 纬蠉蟻蠅 蟽慰蠀. 螣 萎蟻蠅伪蟼 萎蟿伪谓 蠀蟺蔚蟻尾慰位喂魏维 蟽蠀渭蟺伪胃萎蟼 魏伪喂 芦螁纬喂慰蟼禄, 伪位位维 伪蠀蟿萎 畏 蟽蠀渭蟺蔚蟻喂蠁慰蟻维 苇魏蟻蠀尾蔚 苇谓伪 蟺蟻慰蟽蠅蟺喂魏蠈 蟽蟿慰蠂慰. 围蟻蔚喂伪味蠈蟿伪谓 蔚尉喂位苇蠅蟽畏 魏伪喂 纬喂伪 谓伪 蟿慰 蟺蔚蟿蠉蠂蔚喂 伪蟺慰蠁维蟽喂蟽蔚 谓伪 未慰胃蔚委 慰位慰魏位畏蟻蠅蟿喂魏维 蟽蔚 渭委伪 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺喂谓畏 蠉蟺伪蟻尉畏. 危蔚 渭委伪 蔚尉伪胃位喂蠅渭苇谓畏 蠄蠀蠂慰蠉位伪, 蟺慰蠀 蟿伪 渭维蟿喂伪 蟿畏蟼, 魏维胃蔚 蠁蠈蟻渭伪 蟺慰蠀 蟿慰谓 魏慰喂蟿慰蠉蟽伪谓, 渭伪蟻蟿蠀蟻慰蠉蟽伪谓 蟿畏谓 伪蟺苇蟻伪谓蟿畏 蔚蠀纬谓蠅渭慰蟽蠉谓畏 蟺蟻慰蟼 蟿慰 蟺蟻蠈蟽蠅蟺蠈 蟿慰蠀.
韦慰 尾喂尾位委慰 蟿慰 蟿苇位蔚喂蠅蟽伪 蟽蔚 渭蠈位喂蟼 渭委伪 蔚尾未慰渭维未伪 (蟺慰蠀 蔚委谓伪喂 蟿伪 蠂蟻蠈谓喂伪, 蠅蟻伪委伪 蠂蟻蠈谓喂伪 馃ぃ) 蟺伪蟻' 蠈位慰 蟺慰蠀 纬蟻维蠁蟿畏魏蔚 蟽蠂蔚未蠈谓 蟺蟻喂谓 伪蟺蠈 未蠉慰 伪喂蠋谓蔚蟼. 螘委蠂蔚 蟿蠈蟽慰 蠅蟻伪委伪 蟻慰萎, 蟺位慰蠉蟽喂慰 位蔚尉喂位蠈纬喂慰, 位蔚蟺蟿慰渭蔚蟻萎 蟺蔚蟻喂纬蟻伪蠁萎 蟿慰蠀 螤伪蟻喂蟽喂慰蠉 魏伪喂 蟿蠅谓 未蠉慰 芦魏蠈蟽渭蠅谓禄 蟺慰蠀 魏蠀蟻喂伪蟻蠂慰蠉蟽伪谓 蔚魏蔚委谓畏 蟿畏谓 蔚蟺慰蠂萎, 魏伪胃蠋蟼 魏伪喂 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿萎蟻蔚蟼 蟿蠈蟽慰 魏伪位慰纬蟻伪渭渭苇谓慰蠀蟼 蟺慰蠀 未蔚谓 伪蠁萎谓蔚喂 魏伪谓苇谓伪 蟺蔚蟻喂胃蠋蟻喂慰 伪渭蠁喂蟽尾萎蟿畏蟽畏蟼 纬喂伪 蟿畏谓 "蟺苇谓伪" 蟿慰蠀 螣蠀纬魏蠋.
违蟺苇蟻慰蠂慰, 渭伪纬蔚蠀蟿喂魏蠈, 蟽蠀纬魏喂谓畏蟿喂魏蠈. 螆谓伪 尾喂尾位委慰 蟺慰蠀 伪谓萎魏蔚喂 蟽蟿慰 螤维谓胃蔚慰谓 蟿畏蟼 位慰纬慰蟿蔚蠂谓委伪蟼 未喂魏伪委蠅蟼. 螆谓伪 尾喂尾位委慰 蟺慰蠀 慰蠉蟿蔚 蟿慰 10/10 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委 谓伪 蟿慰 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿畏蟻委蟽蔚喂, 慰蠉蟿蔚 苇谓伪 渭喂魏蟻蠈 (未喂胃蠀蟻伪渭尾喂魏蠈) review 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委 谓
February 15, 2021
If there ever was a book that took me by surprise, it would be Les Mis茅rables. And I am not just talking about the many plot twists.
This book contains, quite possibly, the largest number of literary themes and personas I have ever encountered in just one single body of work. Rogues, rebels, police officers, prostitutes, bishops, the poor, the rich, social injustice, love, hate, compassion, redemption, death... All merged together into one gigantic mishmash of storylines and character backgrounds and set up against the background of the political uproar following the French Revolution.
The central character, ex-convict Jean Valjean, is one of the best characters I have ever read about. After stealing bread to save his sister's starving children, he is sent to the galleys to waste away as a slave for years and years. His trauma is hinted at in every corner of this book, and it is all so beautifully done. The arc of redemption Hugo gave him kept me hooked until the very last chapter.
"A few minutes only separated Jean Valjean from that terrible precipice which yawned before him for the third time. And the galleys now meant not only the galleys, but Cosette lost to him forever; that is to say, a life resembling the interior of a tomb."
Jean's story alone would have kept me reading, but Les Mis茅rables throws new characters your way any time you are not expecting it 鈥� bringing new bits of philosophy and insight into the human psyche as they come. Each character is connected to Jean in some way, but also has enough distinct features and characteristics to never fall into the background. Gavroche, for example, only really becomes important to the storyline once the June Rebellion starts; however, I spent enough time reading about him to know exactly who he is and what he stands for.
This book made me cry (multiple times, oops); as the title states, this is anything but a happy story. But the author's humor shines through very often too. At times, the characters are made fun of; at others, there is some light-hearted remark or witty dialogue to lighten the mood:
"Monseigneur, you who turn everything to account have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be better to grow salads there than bouquets."
"Madame Magloire," retorted the Bishop, "you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a pause, "More so perhaps."
The pacing is slow. Very slow. Which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, as the page count is what the story is notorious for. I took the book with me and read it everywhere: in a city apartment on the 46th floor, outside in the garden, and even on the boat I took a trip with last summer. Luckily, the story is divided into "books", which are in turn divided into small chapters. It makes reading this more manageable. And even when you aren't particularly invested in a certain chapter or character, there's always pretty writing to look at!
The sole reason I can't give Les Mis茅rables ALL of the stars is because I am very strict when it comes to five-star ratings. I sure as hell won't be re-reading this book. I think. Plus, those endless chapters with elaborate explanations of battle strategies, Waterloo, and sewers did not impress me. As much as I appreciate the way Hugo's mind worked, I would have liked to see him stray less from the actual plot. Hugo's area of expertise is very clearly the flip side of life in 19th century Paris, but I could have done with a little less information.
That said, read this book. Please. Maybe an abridged version, though.
"Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry."
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Additional Notes:
- It took me so damn long to finish this book that I'm starting to think my reading slump was partially caused by it. Literally a book hangover
- The fact that I read this over lockdown makes me even more attached to it, I think. I'd recommend this to anyone with a bit of time on their hands :)
This book contains, quite possibly, the largest number of literary themes and personas I have ever encountered in just one single body of work. Rogues, rebels, police officers, prostitutes, bishops, the poor, the rich, social injustice, love, hate, compassion, redemption, death... All merged together into one gigantic mishmash of storylines and character backgrounds and set up against the background of the political uproar following the French Revolution.
The central character, ex-convict Jean Valjean, is one of the best characters I have ever read about. After stealing bread to save his sister's starving children, he is sent to the galleys to waste away as a slave for years and years. His trauma is hinted at in every corner of this book, and it is all so beautifully done. The arc of redemption Hugo gave him kept me hooked until the very last chapter.
"A few minutes only separated Jean Valjean from that terrible precipice which yawned before him for the third time. And the galleys now meant not only the galleys, but Cosette lost to him forever; that is to say, a life resembling the interior of a tomb."
Jean's story alone would have kept me reading, but Les Mis茅rables throws new characters your way any time you are not expecting it 鈥� bringing new bits of philosophy and insight into the human psyche as they come. Each character is connected to Jean in some way, but also has enough distinct features and characteristics to never fall into the background. Gavroche, for example, only really becomes important to the storyline once the June Rebellion starts; however, I spent enough time reading about him to know exactly who he is and what he stands for.
This book made me cry (multiple times, oops); as the title states, this is anything but a happy story. But the author's humor shines through very often too. At times, the characters are made fun of; at others, there is some light-hearted remark or witty dialogue to lighten the mood:
"Monseigneur, you who turn everything to account have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be better to grow salads there than bouquets."
"Madame Magloire," retorted the Bishop, "you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a pause, "More so perhaps."
The pacing is slow. Very slow. Which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, as the page count is what the story is notorious for. I took the book with me and read it everywhere: in a city apartment on the 46th floor, outside in the garden, and even on the boat I took a trip with last summer. Luckily, the story is divided into "books", which are in turn divided into small chapters. It makes reading this more manageable. And even when you aren't particularly invested in a certain chapter or character, there's always pretty writing to look at!
The sole reason I can't give Les Mis茅rables ALL of the stars is because I am very strict when it comes to five-star ratings. I sure as hell won't be re-reading this book. I think. Plus, those endless chapters with elaborate explanations of battle strategies, Waterloo, and sewers did not impress me. As much as I appreciate the way Hugo's mind worked, I would have liked to see him stray less from the actual plot. Hugo's area of expertise is very clearly the flip side of life in 19th century Paris, but I could have done with a little less information.
That said, read this book. Please. Maybe an abridged version, though.
"Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry."
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Additional Notes:
- It took me so damn long to finish this book that I'm starting to think my reading slump was partially caused by it. Literally a book hangover
- The fact that I read this over lockdown makes me even more attached to it, I think. I'd recommend this to anyone with a bit of time on their hands :)
August 12, 2018
"廿賳 丕賱丌孬丕乇 丕賱兀丿亘賷丞 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳賷丞 賰丕賱丌孬丕乇 丕賱賲毓賲丕乇賷丞 賵丕賱賮賳賷丞 賱丕 鬲夭丿丕丿 賲毓 丕賱兀賷丕賲 廿賱賾丕 丨購乇賲丞 賵賳賮丕爻丞 亘賱 賵廿卮乇丕賯賸丕 賮賷 亘毓囟 丕賱兀丨賷丕賳. 賵廿賳賲丕 賷鬲兀賰丿 賴匕丕 丕賱賲毓賳賶 兀賰孬乇 丨賷賳 鬲賰賵賳 丕賱賯囟丕賷丕 丕賱鬲賷 賷毓丕賱噩賴丕 丕賱兀孬乇 丕賱禺丕賱丿 賲胤乇賵丨丞貙 賲丕 鬲夭丕賱貙 賮賷 亘賱丕丿賳丕貙 爻賵丕亍 毓賱賶 丕賱氐毓賷丿 丕賱賳馗乇賷 兀賵 毓賱賶 丕賱氐毓賷丿 丕賱毓賲賱賷貙 兀賵 毓賱賶 丕賱氐毓賷丿賷賳 噩賲賷毓賸丕".
賲賳賷乇 丕賱亘毓賱亘賰賷 賮賷 賲賯丿賲丞 鬲乇噩賲鬲賴 丕賱賰丕賲賱丞 賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱亘丐爻丕亍
鬲毓賵丿 亘賷 丕賱匕丕賰乇丞 廿賱賶 兀賷丕賲 丕賱賲丿乇爻丞 丕賱丕亘鬲丿丕卅賷丞 毓賳丿賲丕 賰賳鬲 賮賷 丕賱氐賮 丕賱爻丕丿爻貙 賰賳丕 賮賷 賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱賲丿乇爻丞 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞貙 賵賵賯毓鬲 毓賷賳賷 毓賱賶 乇賵丕賷丞 囟禺賲丞貙 賰丕賳 毓賳賵丕賳賴丕 丕賱亘丐爻丕亍貙 賰丕賳鬲 囟禺賲丞 噩丿賸丕 賵賰丕賳鬲 兀賵賱 乇賵丕賷丞 賲爻賾鬲賴丕 兀氐丕亘毓賷貙 賵賰丕賳鬲 賵乇賯丕鬲賴丕 氐賮乇丕亍 賲賴鬲乇卅丞貙 賯賻賱亘鬲 氐賮丨丕鬲賴丕 賵兀鬲匕賰乇 亘兀賳賳賷 賯乇兀鬲 丕賱氐賮丨丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 賲賳賴丕 賵賱賲 兀賮賴賲 卮賷卅賸丕貙 賲丕 賲毓賳賶 兀爻賯賮責 賲丿賷賳丞 丿賷賳賷責 賰賱賲丕鬲 賵兀賱賮丕馗 睾乇賷亘丞貙 賵毓丕賴丿鬲 賳賮爻賷 亘兀賳賷 丨賷賳 兀賰亘乇 爻兀賯乇丐賴丕 賵兀賮賴賲賴丕. 賲乇鬲 丕賱爻賳賵賳 賵兀氐亘丨鬲 賮賷 丕賱氐賮 丕賱鬲丕爻毓貙 賵賮賷 丿乇爻 賯賵丕毓丿 丕賱賱睾丞 丕賱毓乇亘賷丞 賯乇兀鬲 賳氐賸丕 賯氐賷乇賸丕貙 賵賰購鬲亘 賮賷 丕賱賴丕賲卮 亘兀賳 丕賱賳氐 賲賯鬲亘爻 賲賳 乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱亘丐爻丕亍 賱賮賷賰鬲賵乇 賴賵睾賵貙 賵兀鬲匕賰乇 兀賷囟賸丕 亘兀賳賴 賷鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 賲毓乇賰丞 賵丕鬲乇賱賵 賵賳丕亘賱賷賵賳. 賵氐賱鬲 丕賱氐賮 丕賱兀賵賱 丕賱孬丕賳賵賷貙 賵匕賴亘鬲 廿賱賶 賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱賲丿乇爻丞貙 賵丕爻鬲毓乇鬲 乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱亘丐爻丕亍貙 賵賯乇兀鬲賴丕 賱兀賵賱 賲乇丞 鈥撡堌Ｘ百冐� 兀賳賴丕 賱賲 鬲賰賳 鬲乇噩賲丞 賰丕賲賱丞-貙 爻賰賳鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 乇賵丨賷 賵賵噩丿丕賳賷. 丿禺賱鬲 丕賱噩丕賲毓丞 賵賲亘丕卮乇丞 匕賴亘鬲 廿賱賶 賲賰鬲亘鬲賴丕 丕賱囟禺賲丞 賵賮賷 賯爻賲 丕賱兀丿亘 賵丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 賵賴賳丕賰 賮賷 乇賮 毓丕賱賺 賰丕賳鬲 丕賱賲噩賱丿丕鬲 丕賱禺賲爻丞 賲賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賲乇鬲亘丞貙 丕爻鬲毓乇鬲賴丕 賵賯乇兀鬲賴丕 賵毓卮鬲 賲毓賴丕 賵賮賷賴丕 兀賷丕賲賸丕 胤賵賷賱丞. 毓丕賵丿鬲 賯乇兀鬲賴丕 亘毓丿 匕賱賰 孬賱丕孬 賲乇丕鬲 賵賱賰賳 亘鬲乇噩賲丕鬲 賲禺鬲賱賮丞. 丨丕賵賱鬲 丕賱亘丨孬 賰孬賷乇賸丕 毓賳 丕賱賳爻禺丞 丕賱賰丕賲賱丞 賱兀賯鬲賳賷賴丕 賵賱賰賳賷 賱賲 兀噩丿賴丕貙 賵賲丐禺乇賸丕 賳卮乇鬲 丿丕乇 丕賱毓賱賲 賱賱賲賱丕賷賷賳 丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 丕賱賰丕賲賱丞 亘賲噩賱丿賷賳 丕孬賳賷賳貙 賵毓丕賵丿鬲 賯乇兀鬲賴丕 賱賱賲乇丞 丕賱爻丕丿爻丞. 賵廿賳 賯丿賾乇賳賷 丕賱賱賴 賵賲丿 賮賷 毓賲乇賷 爻兀賯乇丐賴丕 賵兀賯乇丐賴丕 賵兀賯乇丐賴丕.
鬲鬲賳丕賵賱 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱囟禺賲丞 賲賵囟賵毓賸丕 賲賴賲賸丕 噩丿賸丕 兀賱丕 賵賴賵 丨丕賱 丕賱兀卮禺丕氐 丕賱賵丕賯毓賷賳 鬲丨鬲 馗賱賲 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓貙 賵鬲丨鬲 丕賱賲馗丕賱賲 賷禺賱賯賴丕 丕賱賯丕賳賵賳貙 賵丕賱丨囟丕乇丞貙 賵丕賱兀毓乇丕賮 丕賱丕噩鬲賲丕毓賷丞. 賵亘丐爻丕亍 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賲丕 賴賲 廿賱賾丕 賳賲丕匕噩 鬲氐賵賾乇 丨丕賱 丕賱亘卮乇 丕賱賲馗賱賵賲賷賳 賮賷 賰賱 毓氐乇 賵賲賰丕賳.
噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳
賴匕丕 丕賱亘丕卅爻 丕賱匕賷 賯囟賶 賮賷 爻噩賳 丕賱兀卮睾丕賱 丕賱卮丕賯丞 19 毓丕賲賸丕 賲賳 兀噩賱 乇睾賷賮 禺亘夭! 賵丨賷賳 賷禺乇噩貙 賷乇賶 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 賷睾賱賯 兀亘賵丕亘賴 賮賷 賵噩賴賴貙 賳賮爻賴 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱匕賷 兀賮賯乇 兀爻乇鬲賴 賵丕囟胤乇賾賴 廿賱賶 丕賱爻乇賯丞貙 賳賮爻 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱匕賷 賵囟毓 賯賵丕賳賷賳賴 丕賱氐丕乇賲丞貙 賳賮爻 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱匕賷 毓丕賯亘 賵丕賱匕賷 丨賻乇賻賲 賵丕賱匕賷 禺賱賯 賰賱 賴匕賴 丕賱賲馗丕賱賲貙 馗賱賲賴 卮丕亘賸丕 賵馗賱賲賴 爻噩賷賳賸丕 賵馗賱賲賴 丨乇賸丕! 賲賲丕 卮賰賾賱 賮賷 丿丕禺賱 賳賮爻賴 賰乇賴賸丕 賵丨賯丿賸丕 卮丿賷丿賸丕 毓賱賶 賴匕丕 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓.
"廿賳 丕賱賳賮賵爻 丕賱賲鬲乇丿賾賷丞 賮賷 賯毓乇 丕賱卮賯丕亍 丕賱兀賯氐賶貙 賵丕賱乇噩丕賱 丕賱亘丕卅爻賷賳 丕賱囟丕卅毓賷賳 賮賷 丕賱兀毓賲丕賯 丕賱爻賮賱賶 丨賷孬 賷丨鬲噩亘賵賳 毓賳 丕賱毓賷丕賳貙 賵兀賵賱卅賰 丕賱匕賷賳 氐亘賾 毓賱賷賴賲 丕賱賯丕賳賵賳 賱毓賳鬲賴 鈥撠ベ� 賴丐賱丕亍 噩賲賷毓賸丕 賱賷丨爻賾賵賳 賮賵賯 乇丐賵爻賴賲 亘賰丕賲賱 孬賯賱 匕賱賰 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱亘卮乇賷 丕賱賲禺賷賮 廿賱賶 兀亘毓丿 丕賱丨丿賵丿 賮賷 毓賷賳 丕賱賲賳亘賵匕 禺丕乇噩賴貙 丕賱賮馗賷毓 廿賱賶 兀亘毓丿 丕賱丨丿賵丿 賮賷 毓賷賳 丕賱賯丕卅賲 鬲丨鬲賴"
賵賲賳 睾賷乇 匕賱賰 丕賱卮賯賷 丕賱賲鬲乇丿賾賷 賮賷 賯毓乇 丕賱卮賯丕亍 兀賰孬乇 丨丕噩丞 廿賱賶 丕賱廿丨爻丕賳 賵廿賱賶 賲毓丕賲賱鬲賴 賰亘卮乇! 賵賴匕丕 賲丕 兀丨丿孬賴 丕賱兀爻賯賮 賲賷乇賷賷賱 賮賷 賳賮爻 噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳貙 賮丨胤賾賲 賮賷 賳賮爻賴 丕賱丨賯丿 賵兀囟丕亍 賮賷賴丕 卮毓賱丞 丕賱禺賷乇.
"廿賳 丕賱爻賲丕亍 賱鬲亘鬲賴噩 賱賱丿賲賵毓 丕賱鬲賷 賷爻賮丨賴丕 丌孬賲 鬲丕卅亘貙 兀賰孬乇 賲賲丕 鬲亘鬲賴噩 賱賲卅丞 亘購乇丿 兀亘賷囟 賷乇鬲丿賷賴丕 賲卅丞 乇噩賱 氐丕賱丨"
賵禺購賱賯 噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳 禺賱賯賸丕 噩丿賷丿賸丕貙 賵兀氐亘丨 丕賱兀亘 賲丕丿賱賷賳貙 賵匕賴亘 廿賱賶 賯乇賷丞 亘毓賷丿丞 賵兀賳卮兀 賴賳丕賰 氐賳丕毓丞 賵兀丨爻賳 廿賱賶 丕賱賰孬賷乇賷賳 賵兀丨亘 丕賱賳丕爻 賵兀丨亘賵賴. 賱賰賳 囟賲賷乇賴 丕賱匕賷 兀賷賯馗賴 丕賱兀爻賯賮 賲賷乇賷賷賱貙 兀亘賶 毓賱賷賴 兀賳 賷乇賶 卮禺氐賸丕 丌禺乇 賷購爻丕賯 廿賱賶 丕賱爻噩賳 賲賰丕賳賴貙 賮丕毓鬲乇賮 毓賱賶 賳賮爻賴 亘兀賳賴 賴賵 賳賮爻賴 噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳.
"廿賳賴 賱丕 賷爻鬲胤賷毓 兀賳 賷賱噩 亘丕亘 丕賱賯丿丕爻丞 賮賷 毓賷賳賷 丕賱賱賴貙 廿賱賾丕 亘丕賱毓賵丿丞 廿賱賶 丕賱毓丕乇 賮賷 兀毓賷賳 丕賱賳丕爻!"
賮毓丕丿 賲乇丞 兀禺乇賶 廿賱賶 爻噩賳 丕賱兀卮睾丕賱 丕賱卮丕賯丞, 賵亘鬲賷爻賷乇 丕賱兀賯丿丕乇 丕爻鬲胤丕毓 兀賳 賷賴乇亘.
賮丕賳鬲賷賳
賴匕賴 丕賱賮鬲丕丞 丕賱噩賲賷賱丞 丕賱亘乇賷卅丞 丕賱鬲賷 賱賲 賷乇丨賲賴丕 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 賲賳 馗賱賲賴 兀賷囟賸丕 賵兀賵賯毓 毓賱賷賴丕 卮賯丕亍賸 兀賰亘乇. 賮亘毓丿 兀賳 睾乇乇 亘賴丕 兀丨丿 丕賱卮亘丕賳 丕賱賲鬲毓胤賾賱賷賳 丕賱兀睾賳賷丕亍貙 賵賴噩乇賴丕貙 賵囟毓鬲 賲賵賱賵丿鬲賴丕 賵亘丿兀鬲 鬲卮賯 胤乇賷賯賴丕 賮賷 亘丨乇 丕賱卮賯丕亍 丕賱賲鬲夭丕賷丿. 賮毓賲賱鬲 賱鬲毓賷賱 賳賮爻賴丕 賵丕亘賳鬲賴丕貙 賵賱賲 賷賰鬲賮 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 亘賲丕 兀賵賯毓賴 毓賱賷賴丕 賲賳 卮賯丕亍貙 賮鬲乇亘賾氐鬲 亘賴丕 兀毓賷賳 丕賱賲鬲乇亘賾氐賷賳 賵丕鬲購賴賽賲鬲 馗賱賲賸丕 賵胤購乇丿鬲 賲賳 毓賲賱賴丕貙 賮賱賲 鬲噩丿 賲兀賵賶 爻賵賶 丕賱卮丕乇毓貙 鬲毓匕賾亘鬲 賵賲乇囟鬲 賵亘丕毓鬲 賳賮爻賴丕 賲賳 兀噩賱 兀賳 鬲賯賷賲 兀賵丿 胤賮賱鬲賴丕.
"賲丕 賴賷 賯氐丞 賮丕賳鬲賷賳 賴匕賴責 廿賳賴丕 賯氐丞 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 賷卮鬲乇賷 兀賲賻丞賸 乇賯賷賯丞. 賲賲賳責 賲賳 丕賱卮賯丕亍. 賲賳 丕賱噩賵毓貙 賲賳 丕賱亘乇丿貙 賲賳 丕賱賵丨丿丞貙 賲賳 丕賱鬲禺賱賾賷貙 賲賳 丕賱丨乇賲丕賳. 氐賮賯丞 賲賵噩毓丞. 賳賮爻賹 亘卮乇賷丞 賲賯丕亘賱 賰爻乇丞 賲賳 丕賱禺亘夭. 丕賱卮賯丕亍 賷賻毓乇囟 賵丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 賷賯亘賱."
鬲賯丕胤毓鬲 丨賷丕丞 噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳 鈥撠з勜百� 賰丕賳 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱兀賷丕賲 丕賱兀亘 賲丕丿賱賷賳- 賵賮丕賳鬲賷賳貙 賮毓賱賲 亘賵囟毓賴丕 賵兀丨爻賳 廿賱賷賴丕 賵兀卮乇賮 毓賱賶 鬲賯丿賷賲 丕賱毓賱丕噩 賱賴丕貙 賵賵毓丿賴丕 亘兀賳 賷丨囟乇 丕亘賳鬲賴丕 賱賴丕貙 賱賰賳 丕賱兀賯丿丕乇 賱丕 鬲爻賷乇 亘賲丕 賳卮鬲賴賷貙 賵賲丕鬲鬲 賮丕賳鬲賷賳 賯亘賱 兀賳 鬲乇賶 丕亘賳鬲賴丕.
賰賵夭賷鬲
賱兀賳 "丕賱毓匕丕亘 丕賱丕噩鬲賲丕毓賷 賷亘丿兀 賮賷 賰賱 丕賱兀毓賲丕乇" 賵賱丕 賷賮乇賾賯 亘賷賳 乇噩賱 賵丕賲乇兀丞 賵胤賮賱賸丕貙 乇夭丨鬲 賰賵夭賷鬲 丕賱胤賮賱丞 鬲丨鬲 賳賷乇 丕賱賲馗丕賱賲 丕賱丕噩鬲賲丕毓賷丞 賮賷 爻賳 賲亘賰乇丞 噩丿賸丕貙 丨賷孬 鬲乇賰鬲賴丕 賵丕賱丿鬲賴丕 賮丕賳鬲賷賳貙 賮賷 乇毓丕賷丞 鬲賷賳丕乇丿賷賷賴 賵夭賵噩鬲賴貙 丕賱賱匕丕賳 賰丕賳丕 賷爻鬲睾賱賾丕賳 賵囟毓 丕賱兀賲 賲丕 兀賲賰賳賴賲丕 丕賱丕爻鬲睾賱丕賱貙 賵丨賷賳 丕賳賯胤毓鬲 丕賱兀賲賵丕賱 丕賱鬲賷 賰丕賳鬲 鬲乇爻賱賴丕 賮丕賳鬲賷賳 鈥撡勜Ｙ嗁囏� 賲丕鬲鬲- 噩毓賱丕 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲禺賱賵賯丞 丕賱亘乇賷卅丞 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞 禺丕丿賲丞 賮賷 賮賳丿賯賴賲丕 丕賱丨賯賷乇. 賱賰賳 匕賱賰 賱賲 賷爻鬲賲乇貙 賮噩丕亍 噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳 賵兀賳賯匕賴丕 賲賳 賴匕賷賳 丕賱睾賵賱賷賳 丕賱亘卮乇賷賷賳. 賵匕賴亘 亘賴丕 廿賱賶 亘丕乇賷爻. 賱賯丿 賱賲爻 丕賱丨亘 亘兀賳丕賲賱賴 丕賱賲囟賷卅丞 賯賱亘 噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳 賱兀賵賱 賲乇丞貙 賮兀丨亘 賰賵夭賷鬲 賰乇賵丨賴.
"匕賱賰 亘兀賳賴丕 噩丿賾 賲亘賴賲丞 賵噩丿賾 毓匕亘丞 賴匕賴 丕賱毓丕胤賮丞 丕賱毓馗賷賲丞 丕賱睾乇賷亘丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲毓賲購乇購 丕賱賯賱亘 賮賷 丨亘賴 丕賱兀賵賱"
"賰丕賳 兀亘賸丕 賮賷賴 丨鬲賶 丕賱兀賲 匕丕鬲賴丕貙 兀亘賸丕 兀丨亘 賰賵夭賷鬲貙 賵毓亘丿賴丕貙 賵賰丕賳鬲 賱賴 鬲賱賰 丕賱胤賮賱丞 囟賷丕亍貙 賵賰丕賳鬲 亘賷鬲賸丕貙 賵賰丕賳鬲 兀爻乇丞貙 賵賰丕賳鬲 賵胤賳賸丕貙 賵賰丕賳鬲 賮乇丿賵爻賸丕"
賵兀丨亘鬲 賰賵夭賷鬲 匕賱賰 丕賱乇噩賱 丕賱匕賷 賴亘胤 毓賱賷賴丕 賲賳 丕賱爻賲丕亍 賰賲賱丕賰 賵禺賱賾氐賴丕 賲賳 亘乇丕孬賳 丕賱卮賯丕亍貙 賵賱賲 鬲毓乇賮 賰賵夭賷鬲 賯乇賷亘賸丕 兀賵 兀亘賸丕 兀賵 兀賲賸丕 兀賵 兀丨丿賸丕 賮賷 丕賱丨賷丕丞 睾賷乇 噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳.
"賵賰丕賳鬲 廿匕丕 賲丕 噩賱爻 鬲購乇賷丨 禺丿賾賴丕 毓賱賶 卮毓乇賴 丕賱兀卮賷亘貙 賵鬲爻賮丨 丿賲毓丞 賮賷 氐賲鬲貙 賯丕卅賱丞 賱賳賮爻賴丕: "賱毓賱賴責 賱毓賱 賴匕丕 丕賱乇噩賱 兀賲購賷"!"
毓丕卮 噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳 賵賰賵夭賷鬲 賮賷 丿賷乇 亘賷賰亘賵爻 丕賱氐睾賷乇 丕賱匕賷 丌賵丕賴賲丕 賲賳 鬲乇氐賾丿 噩丕賮賷乇 賱爻賳賵丕鬲 胤賵賷賱丞貙 賮賰亘乇鬲 賵賰賵夭賷鬲 賵鬲毓賱賾賲鬲貙 賵毓賲賱 賴賵 賰賲夭丕乇毓 賴賳丕賰. 賮賱賲 賷毓乇賮 爻毓丕丿丞 爻賵賶 亘丕賱賯乇亘 賲賳 胤賮賱鬲賴 賵賴賷 賱賲 鬲毓乇賮 爻毓丕丿丞 爻賵賶 亘噩丕賳亘賴
"賰丕賳 賴賵 爻賳丕丿 賴匕賴 丕賱胤賮賱丞貙 賵賰丕賳鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱胤賮賱丞 賴賷 賳賯胤丞 丕乇鬲賰丕夭賴. 廿賷賴 兀賷賴丕 丕賱賱睾夭 丕賱廿賱賴賷 丕賱匕賷 賱丕 賷購爻亘乇 睾賵乇賴貙 賱睾夭 鬲賵丕夭賳 丕賱賯丿乇!"
毓丕卮 噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳 賲賳 兀噩賱 賰賵夭賷鬲.
噩丕賮賷乇
賲賮鬲卮 丕賱卮乇胤丞 丕賱匕賷 賱丕丨賯 噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳 賲賳 兀賵賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 廿賱賶 丌禺乇賴丕. 賵噩丕賮賷乇 丕賱匕賷 賱賲 賷賰賮 兀亘丿賸丕 賵賱賲 賷賷兀爻 賲賳 丕賱賱丕丨賯 亘噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳 賵廿毓丕丿鬲賴 廿賱賶 丕賱爻噩賳. 賵賷賲孬賾賱 噩丕賮賷乇 亘乇兀賷賷貙 爻賱胤丞 丕賱賯丕賳賵賳 賵丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱鬲賷 鬲兀亘賶 兀賳 鬲鬲乇賰 丕賱爻噩賷賳- 丕賱賲馗賱賵賲 賵卮兀賳賴貙 賵丕賱鬲賷 賱賲 賵賱賳 鬲爻鬲胤賷毓 兀亘丿賸丕 兀賳 鬲亘乇賾乇 丕賱噩乇賷賲丞 丕賱鬲賷 兀賵噩丿鬲賴丕 賴賷.
"兀賰丕賳 孬賲丞貙 廿匕賳貙 丨丕賱丕鬲 賷鬲毓賷賾賳 賮賷賴丕 毓賱賶 丕賱賯丕賳賵賳 兀賳 賷鬲乇丕噩毓 兀賲丕賲 丕賱噩乇賷賲丞 賲噩賱亘亘丞 亘丕賱爻賳丕亍貙 賵賴賵 賷睾賲睾賲 亘丕賱賲毓丕匕賷乇責"
丕賳鬲丨乇 噩丕賮賷乇 兀禺賷乇賸丕 賱兀賳賴 賱賲 賷鬲丨賲賱 兀賳 賷購丨爻賳 毓丿賵賾賴 噩丕賳 賮丕賱噩丕賳 廿賱賷賴 賵兀賳 賷賳賯匕賴 賲賳 丕賱賲賵鬲. 賱賲 賷鬲丨賲賱 賷賯馗丞 丕賱囟賲賷乇 賵賲丨丕爻亘丞 丕賱賳賮爻貙 賱賲 賷鬲丨賲賱 兀賳 賷乇賶 賮賷 賯丕賳賵賳賴 孬睾乇丕鬲 賵鬲噩丕賵夭丕鬲.
"兀賳 賷囟胤乇 廿賱賶 丕賱丕毓鬲乇丕賮 亘賴匕丕: 兀賳 丕賱毓氐賲丞 賲賳 丕賱囟賱丕賱 賱賷爻鬲 賲毓氐賵賲丞貨 賵兀賳賴 賯丿 賷賰賵賳 賮賷 丕賱毓賯賷丿丞 丕賱噩賵賴乇賷丞 禺胤兀 賲丕貨 賵兀賳 丕賱賯丕賳賵賳 丨賷賳 賷鬲賰賱賲 賱丕 賷賯賵賱 賰賱 卮賷亍貨 賵兀賳 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 賱賷爻 賰丕賲賱賸丕貨 賵兀賳 丕賱爻賱胤丞 賲卮賵亘丞 亘鬲乇丿丿貨 賵兀賳 丕賱鬲氐丿毓 賮賷 賲丕 賴賵 睾賷乇 賯丕亘賱 賱賱鬲睾賷乇 賲賲賰賳貨 賵兀賳 丕賱賯囟丕丞 賳丕爻 賲賳 丕賱賳丕爻貨 賵兀賳 丕賱賯丕賳賵賳 賷購禺丿毓貨 賵兀賳 丕賱賲丨丕賰賲 賯丿 鬲禺胤卅! 兀賳 賷乇賶 氐丿毓賸丕 賮賷 亘賱賵乇 丕賱賯亘丞 丕賱夭乇賯丕亍 丕賱賴丕卅賱"
賲丕乇賷賵爻
丕賱卮丕亘 丕賱噩賲賷賱 丕賱匕賷 鬲乇亘賾賶 賮賷 賰賳賮 噩丿賾賴 賱兀賲賴. 賷鬲賷賲 丕賱兀賲, 賱丕 賷毓乇賮 兀亘丕賴 丕賱賰賵賱賵賳賷賱貙 丕賱匕賷 丨乇賲賴 噩丿賾賴 賲賳賴貙 賮夭乇毓 賮賷 乇兀爻 丕賱胤賮賱 兀賳 賷賰乇賴 兀亘丕賴 賵賷賳亘匕賴. 賱賲 賷毓乇賮 賲丕乇賷賵爻 兀亘丕賴 廿賱賾丕 丨賷賳 賲丕鬲貙 賮賰丕賳鬲 鬲賱賰 賳賯胤丞 鬲丨賵賾賱 賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賴 賵丕賰鬲卮賮 賲賯丿丕乇 丨亘 兀亘賷賴 賱賴貙 賵賲丌孬乇 兀亘賷賴 賮賷 賲毓丕乇賰 賳丕亘賱賷賵賳. 賮賯乇乇 鬲乇賰 賲賳夭賱 噩丿賾賴 賵孬乇賵丞 噩丿賾賴貙 賵兀賳 賷毓賷卮 賲毓 乇賮丕賯賴 賷卮丕乇賰賴賲 亘丐爻賴賲貙 賵亘丐爻 兀亘賷賴 賲賳 賯亘賱賴. 鬲丨賵賱 賲丕乇賷賵爻 賲賳 卮丕亘 鬲乇亘賾賶 賮賷 亘賷卅丞 亘乇噩賵丕夭賷丞 廿賱賶 賳丕亘賵賱賷賵賳賷. 賵賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱賮鬲乇丞 乇兀賶 賰賵夭賷鬲貙 賮兀丨亘賴丕 賵兀丨亘鬲賴. 賵賴賳丕 賳乇賶 亘賵囟賵丨 賳賮爻 賮賷賰鬲賵乇 賴賵睾賵 丕賱鬲賷 鬲丿毓賵 丕賱賳丕爻 廿賱賶 丕賱丨購亘 亘賰賱 賯賵丞 賵亘兀賳 丕賱丨購亘 賴賵 賳賵乇 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賵兀爻賲賶 毓丕胤賮丞 賷爻鬲卮毓乇賴丕 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳.
乇爻丕卅賱 賲丕乇賷賵爻 廿賱賶 賰賵夭賷鬲
鬲賷賳丕乇丿賷賷賴 賵夭賵噩鬲賴 賵卮乇賰丕丐賴 賮賷 噩乇丕卅賲賴
鬲卮賰賱 賴匕賴 丕賱賮卅丞 兀丿賳賶 賮卅丕鬲 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓貙 丕賱鬲賷 鬲毓賷卮 賮賷 賰賳賮 丕賱馗賱丕賲 賵鬲賲丕乇爻 卮乇賵乇賴丕 賵丨賯丕乇鬲賴丕 賵噩乇丕卅賲賴丕 賮賷賴. 賴匕賴 丕賱賮卅丞 丕賱鬲賷 丨乇賲賴丕 丕賱噩賴賱 賵丕賱馗賱丕賲 賲賳 兀賷 賮囟賷賱丞 廿賳爻丕賳賷丞 爻丕賲賷丞. 賮鬲丨丕賵賱 丕爻鬲禺丿丕賲 賲賴丕乇丕鬲賴丕 丕賱鬲丿賲賷乇賷丞 丕賱卮乇賷乇丞 賲賳 兀噩賱 鬲丨賯賷賯 賲氐丕賱丨賴丕 丕賱匕丕鬲賷丞 丕賱兀賳丕賳賷丞.
兀氐丿賯丕亍 丕賱兀賱賮亘丕亍
兀氐丿賯丕亍 賲丕乇賷賵爻貨 賲噩賲賵毓丞 賲賳 丕賱胤賱亘丞 賵丕賱毓賲丕賱 丕賱匕賷賳 噩賲毓 亘賷賳賴賲 丨購亘 賮乇賳爻丕 賵丨賱賲賴賲 亘丕賱噩賲賴賵乇賷丞貙 賵賴賲: 丌賳噩賵賱乇丕爻貙 賰賵賲亘賵賮賷乇貙 噩丕賳 亘乇賵賮賷乇貙 賮賵賷賷貙 賰賵乇賮賷乇丕賰貙 亘丕賴賵乇賷賱貙 賱賷睾賱貙 噩賵賱賷貙 睾乇丕賳鬲賷乇.
"廿賳 賱賱賲禺丕胤乇 丕賱毓馗賲賶 賴匕丕 丕賱噩賲丕賱貙 賵賴賵 兀賳賴丕 鬲賱賯賷 丕賱賳賵乇 毓賱賶 兀禺賵賾丞 丕賱睾乇亘丕亍"
賵賰賱賴賲 賲丕鬲賵丕 賮賷 孬賵乇丞 丨夭賷乇丕賳/賷賵賳賷賵 1832.
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賷孬賵乇 賮賷賰鬲賵乇 賴賵睾賵 賮賷 乇賵丕賷鬲賴 毓賱賶 丕賱馗賱賲 丕賱匕賷 賷賵賯毓賴 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 毓賱賶 兀賮乇丕丿賴 賵賷毓丕賯亘賴賲 賵賷噩乇賾賲賴賲 毓賱賶 兀卮賷丕亍 氐賳毓賴丕 賴賵貙 賮賳乇丕賴 賷氐乇禺 賮賷 賲賵丕囟毓 賰孬賷乇丞 亘囟乇賵乇丞 賳卮乇 丕賱鬲毓賱賷賲 丕賱賲噩丕賳賷 亘賷賳 丕賱賳丕爻貙 賱兀賳 丕賱鬲毓賱賷賲 賴賵 丕賱賳賵乇 丕賱匕賷 賷賲丨賷 馗賱丕賲 丕賱噩賴賱貨 賵賲丕 丕賱噩賴賱 廿賱賾丕 丕賱亘匕乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲亘賳鬲 賲賳賴丕 賰賱 噩乇賷賲丞 賵卮乇:
丕賱兀爻賯賮 賲賷乇賷賷賱: "毓賱賾賲 丕賱噩丕賴賱 賲丕 賵爻毓賰 丕賱鬲毓賱賷賲. 廿賳 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 賱賷購噩乇賲購 丨賷賳 賱丕 賷夭賵賾丿 賰賱 丕賲乇卅 亘丕賱毓賱賲 丕賱賲噩丕賳賷. 廿賳賴 賱賲爻丐賵賱 毓賳 丕賱馗賱丕賲 丕賱匕賷 賷丨丿孬賴. 賵丨賷賳 鬲購鬲乇賰 丕賱賳賮爻 賮賷 丕賱馗賱丕賲貙 賮毓賳丿卅匕 鬲購賯鬲乇賮 丕賱丌孬丕賲. 賵丕賱賲噩乇賲 賱賷爻 匕賱賰 丕賱匕賷 賷賯鬲乇賮 丕賱廿孬賲貙 賵賱賰賳賴 匕賱賰 丕賱匕賷 賷購丨丿孬 丕賱馗賱丕賲."
"廿賳 噩賲賷毓 丕賱廿卮毓丕毓丕鬲 丕賱丕噩鬲賲丕毓賷丞 丕賱爻禺賷賾丞 賱鬲賳亘孬賯 毓賳 丕賱毓賱賲貙 毓賳 丕賱兀丿亘貙 毓賳 丕賱賮賳賵賳貙 毓賳 丕賱鬲毓賱賷賲. 丕氐賳毓賵丕 乇噩丕賱賸丕貨 丕氐賳毓賵丕 乇噩丕賱賸丕. 丕賲賳丨賵賴賲 丕賱囟賷丕亍 賱賰賷 賷毓胤賵賰賲 丕賱丿賮亍. 賵爻賵丕亍 毓丕噩賱賸丕 兀賲 丌噩賱賸丕貙 爻鬲丨鬲賱 賲爻兀賱丞 丕賱鬲毓賱賷賲 丕賱卮丕賲賱 丕賱亘丕賴乇丞 賲賰丕賳賴丕 亘爻賱胤丕賳 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 丕賱賲胤賱賯丞 丕賱匕賷 賱丕 爻亘賷賱 廿賱賶 賲賯丕賵賲鬲賴".
"廿賳 鬲丨鬲 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 鈥撡堎嗀� 賳氐乇賾 毓賱賶 匕賱賰貙 賰賴賮賸丕 囟禺賲賸丕 賴賵 賰賴賮 丕賱卮乇貙 賵賱爻賵賮 賷馗賱 賴匕丕 丕賱賰賴賮 賯丕卅賲賸丕 鬲丨鬲 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓貙 廿賱賶 賷賵賲 賷夭賵賱 丕賱噩賴賱".
"丿賲賾乇賵丕 丕賱賰賴賮 丕賱賲爻賲賻賶 丕賱噩賴賱 鬲賯鬲賱賵丕 丕賱禺購賱丿 丕賱賲爻賲賻賶 丕賱噩乇賷賲丞".
"廿賳 丕賱鬲賯爻賷賲 丕賱丨賯 賱賱賳丕爻 賴賵 丕賱匕賷 賷噩毓賱賴賲 賳賵毓賷賳: 賲卮乇賯賷賳 賵賲馗賱賲賷賳. 賵丕賱毓賲賱 毓賱賶 廿賳賯丕氐 毓丿丿 丕賱賲馗賱賲賷賳貙 賵夭賷丕丿丞 毓丿丿 丕賱賲卮乇賯賷賳 賴賵 丕賱睾丕賷丞. 賲賳 兀噩賱 匕賱賰 賳氐賷丨: 丕賱鬲毓賱賷賲貙 丕賱賲毓乇賮丞! 廿賳 鬲毓賱賷賲 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 兀卮亘賴 卮賷亍 亘廿囟乇丕賲 丕賱賳丕乇. 賵賰賱 賲賯胤毓 賷購賴噩賻賾賶 廿賳賲丕 賷胤賱賯 卮乇丕乇丞".
賵賷爻賱賾胤 丕賱囟賵亍 兀賷囟賸丕 毓賱賶 鬲卮乇賾丿 丕賱兀胤賮丕賱 賵卮賯丕亍賴賲 賵賷乇賶 兀賳 丕賱噩乇賷賲丞 鬲亘丿兀 亘鬲卮乇賾丿 丕賱兀胤賮丕賱. 賵鬲賲孬賾賱鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱賮卅丞 亘賰賵夭賷鬲 丕賱胤賮賱丞 賵睾丕賮乇賵卮 廿賷亘賵賳賷賳 賵丌夭賷賱賲丕 賵丕亘賳賷 鬲賷賳丕乇丿賷賷賴 丕賱氐睾賷乇賷賳.
"賵丕賱丨賯貙 兀賳 丕賱匕賷 賱賲 賷乇賻 睾賷乇 亘丐爻 丕賱乇噩賱 賱賲 賷乇賻 卮賷卅賸丕貨 賷噩亘 兀賳 賷乇賶 亘丐爻 丕賱賲乇兀丞. 賵賲賳 賱賲 賷乇賻 睾賷乇 亘丐爻 丕賱賲乇兀丞 賱賲 賷乇賻 卮賷卅賸丕貨 賷噩亘 兀賳 賷乇賶 亘丐爻 丕賱胤賮賱".
廿賳 亘丐爻 丕賱兀胤賮丕賱 賴賵 丕賱氐賵乇丞 丕賱賮噩賾丞 毓賱賶 賯爻賵丞 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 賵馗賱賲賴.
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廿賳 乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱亘丐爻丕亍 賱賷爻鬲 賮賯胤 乇賵丕賷丞 丕噩鬲賲丕毓賷丞貙 賵廿賳賲丕 賵孬賷賯丞 鬲丕乇賷禺賷丞 賲賴賲丞貙 鬲氐賵賾乇 毓氐乇賸丕 賰丕賲賱賸丕 鬲囟丕乇亘鬲 賮賷賴 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 賵鬲睾賷賾乇 賮賷賴 賵噩賴 兀賵乇賵亘丕 賵丕賱毓丕賱賲. 噩爻賾丿鬲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲丕乇賷禺 賮乇賳爻丕 賮賷 兀卮丿 丨賯亘賴 禺胤乇賸丕 鈥撡勝娯� 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱孬賵乇丞 丕賱賮乇賳爻賷丞 (1789) 賰賲丕 賷馗賳 丕賱亘毓囟 禺胤兀賸- 賵賴賷 丕賱賮鬲乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 丕賲鬲丿鬲 賲賳 亘毓丿 禺爻丕乇丞 賳丕亘賵賱賷賵賳 賱賲毓乇賰丞 賵丕鬲乇賱賵貙 賵丨賰賲 卮丕乇賱 丕賱毓丕卮乇 賵丕賱廿胤丕丨丞 亘賴 賮賷 孬賵乇丞 鬲賲賵夭/賷賵賱賷賵 1830貙 賵丕賱賲氐丕丿賯丞 毓賱賶 丕亘賳 毓賲賴貙 賲賳 賮乇毓 兀爻乇丞 兀賵乇賱賷丕賳貙 賱賵賷爻 賮賷賱賷亘貙 賰賲賱賰 丿爻鬲賵乇賷 賱賮乇賳爻丕貙 丨鬲賶 丕賱廿胤丕丨丞 亘賴 賮賷 孬賵乇丞 1848. 賵賰賱 賴匕賴 丕賱賲馗丕賱賲 丕賱丕噩鬲賲丕毓賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 氐賵賾乇鬲賴丕 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賲丕 賴賷 廿賱賾丕 賳鬲賷噩丞 賱鬲賯賱賾亘丕鬲 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺貙 賵兀丨賵丕賱 丕賱亘賱丕丿貙 賲賳 賲賱賰賷丕鬲 廿賱賶 噩賲賴賵乇賷丕鬲 廿賱賶 丨乇賵亘.
賱賯丿 賰丕賳鬲 丕賱賳夭毓丕鬲 丕賱鬲丨乇乇賷丞 賮賷 賮乇賳爻丕 賵丕賱丨乇賵亘 丕賱賳丕亘賵賱賷賵賳賷丞 氐賮毓丞 賯賵賷丞 賮賷 賵噩賴 丕賱賲賱賰賷丕鬲 丕賱兀賵乇賵亘賷丞 丕賱賲胤賱賯丞貙 賮賰丕賳鬲 賮乇賳爻丕 賲賳 兀賵丕卅賱 丕賱丿賵賱 丕賱鬲賷 兀丿乇賰鬲 丨賯 卮毓亘賴丕 賮賷 丕禺鬲賷丕乇 賳馗丕賲 丨賰賲賴貙 賵廿爻賯丕胤 丕賱丨賯 丕賱廿賱賴賷 賮賷 丕賱丨賰賲貙 丨賷孬 賰丕賳 丨賰賾丕賲 賵賲賱賵賰 鬲賱賰 丕賱丨賯亘丞 賲賳 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 賷丨賰賲賵賳 亘卮賰賱 賲胤賱賯 賵賷爻鬲賲丿賵賳 爻賱胤丕賳 賴匕丕 丕賱丨賰賲 賲賳 丕賱賱賴貙 賵賰兀賳賴賲 馗賱賴 毓賱賶 丕賱兀乇囟. 賮鬲噩丕賵夭鬲 賯賷賲 丕賱孬賵乇丕鬲 丕賱賮乇賳爻賷丞 賵廿毓賱丕賳 丨賯賵賯 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳 丨丿賵丿 賮乇賳爻丕 廿賱賶 丿賵賱 兀賵乇賵亘丕 賵丕賱毓丕賱賲貙 賮卮賰賾賱鬲 禺胤乇賸丕 卮丿賷丿賸丕 毓賱賶 丕賱丨賰賾丕賲 賮丨丕賵賱賵丕 丕賱賯囟丕亍 毓賱賶 賳丕亘賵賱賷賵賳 賵廿乇噩丕毓 丌賱 亘賵乇亘賵賳 廿賱賶 毓乇卮 賮乇賳爻丕
"賱賯丿 賵購噩丿鬲 賮乇賳爻丞 賱賰賷 鬲賵賯馗 乇賵丨 丕賱卮毓賵亘貙 賱丕 賱賰賷 鬲禺賳賯賴丕. 賮賲賳匕 毓丕賲 1792 賱賲 鬲賰賳 噩賲賷毓 孬賵乇丕鬲 兀賵乇賵亘丞 卮賷卅賸丕 睾賷乇 丕賱孬賵乇丞 丕賱賮乇賳爻賷丞貨 賰丕賳鬲 丕賱丨乇賷丞 鬲卮毓賾 賲賳 賰賱 乇噩賸丕 賲賳 兀乇噩丕亍 賮乇賳爻丕. 鬲賱賰 丨賯賷賯丞 爻丕胤毓丞 爻胤賵毓 丕賱卮賲爻 賮賷 乇丕卅毓丞 丕賱賳丕乇. 賵兀毓賲賶 賴賵 丕賱匕賷 賱丕 賷乇丕賴丕".
賱賰賳 賴賷賴丕鬲 兀賳 賷賯亘賱 卮毓亘 匕丕賯 胤毓賲 丕賱丨乇賷丞貙 丕賱毓賵丿丞 鬲丨鬲 馗賱 丕賱賲賱賰賷丕鬲 丕賱賲胤賱賯丞貙 賴賷賴丕鬲 兀賳 賷賯亘賱 卮毓亘 鬲卮乇賾亘 兀賮賰丕乇 賮賵賱鬲賷乇 賵賲賵賳鬲賷爻賰賷賵 賵丿賷丿乇賵 兀賳 賷乇夭丨 鬲丨鬲 丕賱丿賰鬲丕鬲賵乇賷丞貙 賮乇賮囟賵丕 賵丨丕乇亘賵丕貙 賵鬲賲夭賯鬲 賮乇賳爻丕 賵爻丕賱 丿賲 兀亘賳丕亍賴丕 賮賷 爻亘賷賱 賴匕賴 丕賱丨乇賷丞 丕賱睾丕賱賷丞.
"廿賳 噩賲賷毓 丕賱賮鬲賵丨 丕賱噩賱賷賱丞 賴賷貙 賰孬賷乇賸丕 兀賵 賯賱賷賱賸丕貙 孬賵丕亘 丕賱噩乇兀丞. 賮賱賲 賷賰賳 賰丕賮賷賸丕 鈥撡勝冑� 鬲賳丿賱毓 孬賵乇丞- 兀賳 賷鬲賳亘兀 亘賴丕 賲賵賳鬲賷爻賰賷賵貙 賵賷亘卮賾乇 亘賴丕 丿賷丿乇賵貙 賵賷毓賱賳賴丕 亘賵賲丕乇卮賷賴貙 賵賷丿亘賾乇賴丕 賰賵丿賳賵乇爻賷賴貙 賵賷賲賴賾丿 賱賴丕 丌乇賵賵賷賴貙 賵賷鬲毓賲賾丿賴丕 乇賵爻賵. 賰丕賳 賲賳 丕賱囟乇賵乇賷 兀賳 賷噩乇丐 毓賱賷賴丕 丿丕賳鬲賵賳".
賳毓賲 賱賯丿 鬲噩乇賾兀 丕賱卮毓亘 丕賱賮乇賳爻賷 丕賱匕賷 乇丕賴賳 毓賱賷賴 賮賷賰鬲賵乇 賴賵睾賵貙 賵丕爻鬲胤丕毓 兀賳 賷鬲賳夭毓 丨乇賾賷鬲賴 賵丨賯賾賴 丕賱胤亘賷毓賷 賮賷 鬲賯乇賷乇 賲氐賷乇賴.
"廿賳 賴匕賴 丕賱兀賯丿丕賲 丕賱丨丕賮賷丞貙 賴匕賴 丕賱兀匕乇毓 丕賱毓丕乇賷丞貙 賴匕賴 丕賱兀爻賲丕賱 丕賱亘丕賱賷丞貙 賴匕賴 丕賱噩賴丕賱丕鬲貙 賴匕賴 丕賱丨賯丕乇丕鬲貙 賴匕賴 丕賱賰賱賲丕鬲貙 賷賲賰賳 兀賳 鬲購氐胤賳毓 賮賷 丕賱賳囟丕賱 賲賳 兀噩賱 鬲丨賯賷賯 丕賱賲孬賱 丕賱兀毓賱賶. 丕賳馗購乇 賲賳 禺賱丕賱 丕賱卮毓亘 鬲賱賲丨 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞. 廿賳 賴匕丕 丕賱鬲乇丕亘 丕賱禺爻賷爻 丕賱匕賷 鬲胤兀賴 亘賯丿賲賷賰貙 廿匕丕 賲丕 賯匕賮鬲 亘賴 丕賱兀鬲賵賳貙 賵鬲乇賰鬲賴 賷匕賵亘 賵賷賮賵乇貙 賷氐亘丨 亘賱賵乇賸丕 賷亘賴乇 丕賱兀亘氐丕乇貙 賵亘賮囟賱賴 爻賵賮 賷賱賲毓 睾丕賱賷賱賷賵 噩丿賷丿 兀賵 賳賷賵鬲賳 噩丿賷丿 賮賷賰鬲卮賮 丕賱賳噩賵賲".
賵賱賲 鬲氐賱 賮乇賳爻丕 丕賱賷賵賲 廿賱賶 賲丕 賴賷 毓賱賷賴 賲賳 丿賷賲賯乇丕胤賷丞 廿賱賾丕 亘毓丿 兀賳 卮賴丿鬲 丕賱賵賷賱丕鬲 賵賲丕鬲 丕賱賲賱丕賷賷賳 賲賳 兀亘賳丕卅賴丕 賮丿丕亍賸丕 賱賱丨乇賷丞 賵丕賱噩賲賴賵乇賷丞.
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鬲噩賱賾鬲 賯丿乇丞 賮賷賰鬲賵乇 賴賵睾賵 丕賱爻丕丨乇丞 賮賷 丕賱賵氐賮 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 兀卮丿 鬲噩賱賺賾貙 賮賳乇丕賴 賷睾賵氐 賮賷 賳賮賵爻 卮禺氐賷丕鬲賴 賵賷爻亘乇 兀睾賵丕乇賴丕 賵賷賰卮賮 賱賳丕 賲丕 賷毓鬲賲賱 賮賷 爻賵賷丿丕卅賴丕
"賴賳丕賰 賲卮賴丿 賵丕丨丿 兀毓馗賲 賲賳 丕賱亘丨乇貨 匕賱賰 賴賵 賲卮賴丿 丕賱爻賲丕亍. 賵賴賳丕賰 賲卮賴丿 賵丕丨丿 兀毓馗賲 賲賳 丕賱爻賲丕亍貨 匕賱賰 賴賵 亘丕胤賳 丕賱賳賮爻 丕賱亘卮乇賷丞"
賵賳乇丕賴 賷氐賮 丕賱丨購亘 賵丕賱賲丨亘賷賳 亘兀毓匕亘 賵兀乇賯 丕賱兀賱賮丕馗 賵丕賱氐賮丕鬲
"廿賳 兀爻賲賶 賲乇丕鬲亘 丕賱爻毓丕丿丞 賮賷 丕賱丨賷丕丞 廿賷賲丕賳賳丕 亘兀賳賳丕 賲丨亘賵亘賵賳貨 賲丨亘賵亘賵賳 賱匕賵丕鬲賳丕 鈥撡堌ㄙ冑勝呚� 兀賮囟賱- 賲丨亘賵亘賵賳 乇睾賲 匕賵丕鬲賳丕"
賴匕賴 賱賷爻 乇賵丕賷丞 賵廿賳賲丕 鬲丨賮丞 兀丿亘賷丞 賵乇丕卅毓丞 賲賳 丕賱乇賵丕卅毓 丕賱鬲賷 禺胤賾鬲賴丕 賷丿 亘賳賷 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳 賷賵賲賸丕. 鬲囟胤乇亘 賮賷 賯賱亘賰 賰賱 丕賱賲卮丕毓乇 兀孬賳丕亍 賯乇丕卅鬲賴丕.
卮賰乇賸丕 賮賷賰鬲賵乇 賴賵睾賵 毓賱賶 賲丕 賯丿賾賲鬲賴 賱賳丕 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱毓賲賱 丕賱禺丕賱丿.
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賱賳鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 賯賱賷賱賸丕貙 鬲購毓丿賾 鬲乇噩賲丞 賲賳賷乇 丕賱亘毓賱亘賰賷 鈥撠促娯� 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲賷賳- 丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 丕賱賰丕賲賱丞 賱賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱囟禺賲丞貙 賮賱賲 賷賳鬲賯氐 賲賳 鬲賮丕氐賷賱賴丕 卮賷卅賸丕. 毓賱賶 毓賰爻 賲丕 賷氐丿乇 賰賱 賷賵賲 賲賳 丕禺鬲氐丕乇丕鬲 賱賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 丕禺鬲氐丕乇丕鬲 賲毓賷亘丞 噩丿賸丕 亘丨賯 毓賲賱 毓馗賷賲 賰賴匕丕貙 鬲乇噩賲丕鬲 賯丕氐乇丞 噩丿賸丕貙 賱賲 鬲毓胤賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丨賯賾賴丕 兀亘丿賸丕貙 賵廿賳賲丕 爻丕賴賲鬲 亘廿賷氐丕賱 兀賮賰丕乇 賲睾賱賵胤丞 毓賳賴丕 賱賱賯乇丕亍. 賮賰賷賮 亘丕賱賱賴 毓賱賷賰賲 兀賳 鬲購禺鬲氐乇 乇賵丕賷丞 囟禺賲丞 亘賴匕丕 丕賱噩丨賲 賮賷 400 氐賮丨丞貙 賴匕賴 丕賱賭400 氐賮丨丞 賱丕 鬲卮賰賾賱 丨賯賷賯丞賸 爻賵賶 賵丕丨丿 賲賳 兀賯爻丕賲賴丕 丕賱禺賲爻丞! 賰賷賮 賷賲賰賳 賱卮禺氐 賲丕 兀賳 賷賯賵賱 亘兀賳賴 賯乇兀 丕賱亘丐爻丕亍 (丕賱賳爻禺 丕賱賲禺鬲氐乇丞) 賵賴賵 賮毓賱賷賸丕 賱賲 賷賯乇兀 爻賵賶 賲禺鬲氐乇 賲毓賷亘 毓賳賴丕! 賰賳鬲 賯丿 賯乇兀鬲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 亘鬲乇噩賲丞 賲禺鬲氐乇丞 4 賲乇丕鬲貙 賵賱賲 兀噩丿 丕賱賰孬賷乇 丕賱賰孬賷乇 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賲丕 賷賵噩丿 亘丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 丕賱賰丕賲賱丞. 賱匕賱賰 兀丿毓賵 丕賱噩賲賷毓 亘兀賳 賷賯乇兀賵丕 鬲乇噩賲丞 賲賳賷乇 丕賱亘毓賱亘賰賷 丕賱賰丕賲賱丞 丕賱廿亘丿丕毓賷丞 丕賱乇丕卅毓丞貙 丕賱氐丕丿乇丞 亘賳爻禺丞 丨丿賷孬丞 賲賳 丿丕乇 丕賱毓賱賲 賱賱賲賱丕賷賷賳.
賲賱丕丨馗丞 毓賱賶 丕賱賴丕賲卮: 兀孬賳丕亍 賯乇丕卅鬲賷 賱賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 賵氐賱鬲賳賷 丕賱毓丿賷丿 賲賳 丕賱乇爻丕卅賱 賵丕賱鬲毓賱賷賯丕鬲 亘兀賳 "丕賱亘丐爻丕亍" 禺胤兀 賵兀賳 丕賱兀氐丨 兀賳 鬲鬲乇噩賲 "亘丕卅爻賵賳"貙 賵兀賳 兀賯賵賱 賱賴賲 賷丕 兀禺賵丕賳賷 賵兀氐丿賯丕卅賷貙 兀賳丕 賱爻鬲 爻賵賶 賯丕乇卅 亘爻賷胤貙 賱賲 兀鬲乇噩賲 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵賱丕 兀卮乇賮 毓賱賶 丿賵乇 丕賱賳卮乇 丕賱鬲賷 賳卮乇鬲賴丕 賵胤亘毓鬲賴丕 賲賱丕賷賷賳 丕賱賲乇丕鬲, 賵兀丿毓賵 兀賷 卮禺氐 賱丿賷賴 丕毓鬲乇丕囟 毓賱賶 鬲乇噩賲丞 丕賱毓賳賵丕賳 兀賳 賷乇丕爻賱 丿賵乇 丕賱賳卮乇 賵賷禺亘乇賴賲 亘賲丕 賱丿賷賴.
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丕禺鬲賲 賲乇丕噩毓鬲賷 賴匕賴 亘氐乇禺丞 賮賷賰鬲賵乇 賴賵睾賵 賮賷 賵噩賴 丕賱賳馗丕賲 丕賱丕噩鬲賲丕毓賷:
"丨購賱賾賵丕 丕賱賲卮賰賱鬲賷賳貙 卮噩毓賵丕 丕賱睾賳賷貙 丕丨賲賵丕 丕賱賮賯賷乇貙 兀賻賱睾賵丕 丕賱亘丐爻貙 囟毓賵丕 丨丿賸丕 賱賱丕爻鬲睾賱丕賱 睾賷乇 丕賱毓丕丿賱 丕賱匕賷 賷購賳夭賱賴 丕賱賯賵賷 亘丕賱囟毓賷賮貙 丕賰亘丨賵丕 丕賱丨爻丿 丕賱胤丕睾賷 丕賱匕賷 賷爻鬲卮毓乇賴 匕賱賰 丕賱匕賷 賱丕 賷夭丕賱 毓賱賶 丕賱胤乇賷賯 賳丨賵 匕賱賰 丕賱匕賷 亘賱睾 睾丕賷鬲賴貨 毓丿賾賱賵丕 兀噩賵乇 丕賱毓賲賱 賮賷 丿賯丞 賵毓賱賶 賳丨賵 兀禺賵賷賾貨 兀囟賷賮賵丕 丕賱鬲毓賱賷賲 丕賱賲噩丕賳賷 賵丕賱廿賱夭丕賲賷 廿賱賶 賳賲賵 丕賱胤賮賵賱丞貙 賵丕噩毓賱賵丕 丕賱毓賱賲 兀爻丕爻 丕賱乇噩賵賱丞貙 賳賲賾賵丕 丕賱毓賯賱 賮賷賲丕 鬲賲爻賰賵賳 亘丕賱匕乇丕毓貨 賰賵賳賵丕 卮毓亘賸丕 賯賵賷賸丕 賵兀爻乇丞 賲賳 丕賱賳丕爻 丕賱爻毓丿丕亍 賮賷 丌賳 賲毓賸丕貨 丕噩毓賱賵丕 丕賱賲賱賰賷丞 丿賷賲賵賯乇丕胤賷丞貙 賱丕 亘廿賱睾丕卅賴丕貙 賵賱賰賳 亘鬲毓賲賷賲賴丕 亘丨賷孬 賷氐亘丨 賮賷 賲賷爻賵乇 賰賱 賲賵丕胤賳 亘賱丕 丕爻鬲孬賳丕亍 兀賳 賷賰賵賳 賲丕賱賰賸丕貙 賵賴賵 卮賷亍 兀賷爻乇 賲賲丕 賷購毓鬲賯丿. 賵亘賰賱賲鬲賷賳 丕孬賳鬲賷賳貙 鬲毓賱賾賲賵丕 鬲賳鬲噩賵賳 丕賱孬賵乇丞貙 賵鬲毓賱賾賲賵丕 賰賷賮 鬲賵夭毓賵賳賴丕貙 賵毓賳丿卅匕 鬲鬲賲 賱賰賲 丕賱毓馗賲丞 丕賱賲丕丿賷丞 賵丕賱毓馗賲丞 丕賱賲毓賳賵賷丞貙 賲鬲丨丿鬲賷賳貙 賵毓賳丿卅匕 鬲賰賵賳賵賳 噩丿賷乇賷賳 亘兀賳 鬲丿毓賵丕 兀賳賮爻賰賲 賮乇賳爻丞"
丕賳鬲賴鬲 亘丨賲丿 丕賱賱賴.
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