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Man Who Laughs: L'Homme Qu Rit
Man Who Laughs: L'Homme Qu Rit | Victor Hugo
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While living in the Channel Islands during his exile from France, Victor Hugo wrote L'Homme qu rit (The Man Who Laughs, 1869), one of his last novels. Using the early 18th century British political system as a backdrop, Hugo tells the story of a sideshow performer named Gwynplaine, whose hideously scarred face (purposely disfigured by torturers to produce a permanent grin) forces him to become an entertainer. As Gwynplaine's fortunes rise, he carries the desperate voice of the people to the ears of the aristocracy, with tragically predictable results. In The Man Who Laughs, Hugo is unrepentantly Republican in tone, producing perhaps his most biting and cynical tale, in which, he damns the power elite for the injustice and inhumanity inherent in their maintenance of class distinctions, all the while crying in the darkness for what he hopes is an inevitable change on the horizon. The result is a pathos-laden tragedy, full of both wit and woe.
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Whalien99
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Consuelo238
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Tarde años en conseguir el libro y por fin se me hizo leerlo! Completamente la narrativa de V. Hugo súper lento en algunas situaciones incluso aburrido, pero la historia es muy buena, con giros inesperados y los personajes son originales e interesantes. Aunque hay demasiado acerca de la monarquia, se entiende que es necesario explicar, es parecido a los miserables. me encanto!recomendado para quien tiene tiempo de leer en calma pues resulta pesado

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🗼✒️💈The great master and empathizer of human suffering #victorhugo was born today in 1885. I adored#lesmiserables as a teenager (angst galore) but the #hunchbackofnotredame is also a grand masterpiece in tragedy and compassion. Keep reading Hugo. What's your favorite quote, character, story from this French realist/romantic? 😊

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UglyOldBat
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It took me roughly 5 months to finish this, for various reasons. I enjoyed parts of it but after reading 672 pages the ending was not satisfying to me. I have Hugo's collected works on my kindle and I think I'll tackle them one at a time if this is anything to go by

#laughingman

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Not_a_God
The Man who Laughs | Victor Hugo

A lot of reviews criticized it for having too many philosophical essays, but those were some of my favorite parts.

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