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The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and "Les Miserables"
The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and &quot;Les Miserables&quot;, It was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century and Tolstoy called it the greatest of all novels. Yet today Victor Hugo's <i>Les Misérables</i> is neglected by readers and undervalued by critics. In <i>The Temptation of the Impossible</i, The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and "Les Miserables" has a rating of 3.5 stars
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The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and &quot;Les Miserables&quot;, It was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century and Tolstoy called it the greatest of all novels. Yet today Victor Hugo's Les Misérables is neglected by readers and undervalued by critics. In The Temptation of the Impossible 3.5 out of 5 stars based on 2 reviews
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  • The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and "Les Miserables"
  • Written by author Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Published by Princeton University Press, April 2007
  • It was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century and Tolstoy called it "the greatest of all novels." Yet today Victor Hugo's Les Misérables is neglected by readers and undervalued by critics. In The Temptation of the Impossible
  • "It is always interesting when a writer of Vargas Llosa's distinction discusses a great novelist, bringing to bear a luminous awareness of the craft of fiction. The Temptation of the Impossible is written with considerable zest, discrimination, and enthus
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Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction: Victor Hugo, the Ocean     1
The Divine Stenographer     11
The Dark Vein of Destiny     34
The Law of Chance or the Order of Coincidence     34
The Irresistible Traps     41
The Ambush in the Gorbeau Tenement     43
The Barricade at la Chanvrerie     45
The Paris Sewers     47
Elusive Freedom     52
Touchy Monsters     56
A Character without Qualities     57
The Saint     61
The Just Man     65
A Puritan World     70
The Fanatic     75
An Angel with a Dirty Face     80
Collective Characters     84
The Great Theater of the World     87
Adjectives to Describe the Show     89
Performance, Beauty, and Life     92
Light and Shadow     95
Sets     96
The Victor at Waterloo     97
Human Putrefaction     98
Life as Fiction     102
Rich, Poor, Leisured, Idle, and Marginal     105
Reformist Idealism     110
The Just     114
A Society Rebuilt     118
The Victims: Confinement and Women     120
A Source of Social Injustice: The Law     122
A Stupid and Cruel Monster     124
Civilized Barbarians     131
Long Live Death!     132
Slow-Motion Progress     134
Victor Hugo and the Insurrection of 1832     138
From Heaven Above     146
The Enumeration of the Infinite     148
Attempting the Impossible     154
The Total Novel or the Deicidal Impulse     156
The Temptation of the Impossible     165
Notes     179
Index     185


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