The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Misérables

La tentación de lo imposible: Victor Hugo y "Les Miserables"

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The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Misérables

La tentación de lo imposible: Victor Hugo y "Les Miserables"

Written by Mario Vargas Llosa
4.85 34,123 ratings
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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, one of the world's great novelists, Mario Vargas Llosa, helps us to appreciate the incredible ambition, power, and beauty of Hugo's masterpiece and, in the process, presents a humane vision of fiction as an alternative reality that can help us imagine a different and better world. Hugo, Vargas Llosa says, had at least two goals in Les Misérables:to create a complete fictional world and, through it, to change the real world. Despite the impossibility of these aims, Hugo makes them infectious, sweeping up the reader with his energy and linguistic and narrative skill. Les Misérables, Vargas Llosa argues, embodies a utopian vision of literature: the idea that literature can not only give us a supreme experience of beauty, but also make us more virtuous citizens, and even grant us a glimpse of the "afterlife, the immortal soul, God." If Hugo's aspiration to transform individual and social life through literature now seems innocent, Vargas Llosa says, it is still a powerful ideal that great novels like Les Misérables can persuade us is true.

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Language Eng
Published 2004
ISBN 53967
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Mario Vargas Llosa is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Mario Vargas Llosa can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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