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Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné
Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné
Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné
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Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné

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Une édition de référence du Dernier Jour d’un condamné de Victor Hugo, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.

« Tout à coup l’un des valets m’a enlevé ma veste, et l’autre a pris mes deux mains qui pendaient, les a ramenées derrière mon dos, et j’ai senti les nœuds d’une corde se rouler lentement autour de mes poignets rapprochés. En même temps, l’autre détachait ma cravate. Ma chemise de batiste, seul lambeau qui me restât du moi d’autrefois, l’a fait en quelque sorte hésiter un moment ; puis il s’est mis à en couper le col.

À cette précaution horrible, au saisissement de l’acier qui touchait mon cou, mes coudes ont tressailli, et j’ai laissé échapper un rugissement étouffé. La main de l’exécuteur a tremblé.

– Monsieur, m’a-t-il dit, pardon ! Est-ce que je vous ai fait mal ?

Ces bourreaux sont des hommes très doux. »

(Extrait du chapitre XLVIII)
LangueFrançais
Date de sortie1 janv. 2012
ISBN9782806232427
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Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a French poet and novelist. Born in Besançon, Hugo was the son of a general who served in the Napoleonic army. Raised on the move, Hugo was taken with his family from one outpost to the next, eventually setting with his mother in Paris in 1803. In 1823, he published his first novel, launching a career that would earn him a reputation as a leading figure of French Romanticism. His Gothic novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) was a bestseller throughout Europe, inspiring the French government to restore the legendary cathedral to its former glory. During the reign of King Louis-Philippe, Hugo was elected to the National Assembly of the French Second Republic, where he spoke out against the death penalty and poverty while calling for public education and universal suffrage. Exiled during the rise of Napoleon III, Hugo lived in Guernsey from 1855 to 1870. During this time, he published his literary masterpiece Les Misérables (1862), a historical novel which has been adapted countless times for theater, film, and television. Towards the end of his life, he advocated for republicanism around Europe and across the globe, cementing his reputation as a defender of the people and earning a place at Paris’ Panthéon, where his remains were interred following his death from pneumonia. His final words, written on a note only days before his death, capture the depth of his belief in humanity: “To love is to act.”

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  • Évaluation : 4 sur 5 étoiles
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    Capital punishment has always been a difficult issue for me, and reading Hugo’s slim book from 1829 was timely given a measure to repeal it in California will be voted on this November.The question that those against capital punishment must answer, I think, is why an incorrigible mass-murderer should be allowed to go on living, even if locked up in prison. Hugo’s answer to this is that we should not commit a murder in response to murder, and we should leave punishment to God. Atheists may have a problem with that last part, but the first part seems to be at the heart of the matter.The question that those for the death penalty must answer is why do it, particularly when studies have shown it’s actually more expensive, does not serve as a deterrent to crime, and enforcement is not only racially biased, but sometimes wrong, As David Dow says in the forward to this book, it seems to come down to a need for retribution, and aside from the slippery slope that represents, vengeance is one of the more base parts of human nature. Hugo doesn’t try to touch on those things or present a balanced argument; he makes it clear he is against capital punishment, and his approach is to make the case for all, instead of picking a single case of injustice (though they exist), or to focus on instances where the method of execution fails, resulting in cruel, lingering, agony (though he does mention a few). He alludes to the condemned man in the novel having killed, and mentions the hideous crimes of past occupants of the prison cell he’s in, but he doesn’t go into specific details for why this particular man should be spared – presumably because there will always be another person who’s committed worse crimes, and is “more deserving” of death.Hugo’s approach is simple – to show the humanity of the killer. He does this by writing in first person, from the condemned man’s perspective, showing his experiences in prison leading all the way up to his actual execution in the Place de Grève. Behold this thinking, feeling fellow creature, he says. Remember he is a father, husband, and son. Forget for a moment what he has done – what are you about to do?In the form of another convict he meets, Hugo shows how a man may have come to be a killer – orphaned, with a rough childhood, and once out of prison for theft and honestly trying to turn over a new leaf, shunned and denied work. Doesn’t this touch your heart of hearts, he seems to say, and shouldn’t we follow our most enlightened spiritual leaders in exercising clemency, and not become killers ourseves? You can hear those for the death penalty howl – remember the victims, *their* humanity, how they suffered! – and just where is “The Last Day of the Murdered Man” anyway? And so it goes. This book is pretty simple, and I doubt it will change minds that are entrenched. It does reveal Hugo’s noble nature, which I admire, and it did make me think, and for that it was worth reading. Interestingly enough, after having used the guillotine for the last time in 1977(!), France ultimately did abolish the death penalty in 1981, nearly a century after Hugo’s death in 1885.
  • Évaluation : 3 sur 5 étoiles
    3/5
    Hugo’s polemic against the death penalty is crafted as more of an emotional reaction than a political rant (though that appears in the preface). At first the condemned man believes that “death is infinitely to be preferred” to a life of hard labor; however, as his diary continues, we journey through his thoughts as execution day looms. Most disturbing is the festival atmosphere surrounding executions. When a woman remarks on the higher interest level in seeing a death row inmate versus a chain gang, out narrator posits “it is less diffuse, a concentrated and more aromatic liqueur.”It is also filled with Hugo’s beautiful prose: “For La Grève has already had enough. La Grève is mending her ways. The blood-swigging old crone behaved well in July. She now wants to live a better life, and to remain worthy of her recent good deed. Having lent her body to all the executions of the last three hundred years, she has now gone all coy. She is ashamed of her former calling. She wants to lose her bad name. she disowns the executioner. She is washing down her cobblestones.”
  • Évaluation : 2 sur 5 étoiles
    2/5
    Likely to have had an impact at the time, and written with the mandatory flair and self-pity. Yet not as gripping today as it was before.
  • Évaluation : 4 sur 5 étoiles
    4/5
    This short psychologically powerful novel concerns the thoughts running through the mind of a man in prison and condemned to the guillotine in the early 19th century. It was first published anonymously in 1829, then reissued three years later with a preface by Hugo denouncing the death penalty, both as a matter of principle and as an example of a political abuse that no revolution had been able to abolish. It is not clear what crime the unnamed central character of the novel has committed; the implication is that he has killed someone (there is a reference by his lawyer to his belief the jury will acquit his client of premeditation), and he several times refers to the guilt he feels for the crime he admits to having committed, but we never learn the circumstances. In any case, it is irrelevant to the book's main point, which is the psychological changes he undergoes as the days and hours shrink down to the end. A terse but memorable read.

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