The Last Day Of A Man Condemned To Death
(Victor Hugo)
What does it mean to live the last day of your life? And how would you live being completely aware of the fact? This book tells of a moment, of the suspense before death...it takes you to the extreme consequences in an instant, hoping, in the moment of abandon, to make contact. The life of a man, committed to chains for a crime, who wastes away his last moments thinking about who he was, what he has done and what he is losing...His daughter, the driving force of the small novel; even more so than death the condemned awaits his daughter, waits to see her again, to hold her again...in the innocence of a child's gaze he seeks redemption, he seeks the justification of his own existence...But there's no time to waste words; you are a convict, your little daughter who you haven't seen for a year doesn't even recognise you and the void left by her goodbye finds peace and a conclusion in the only certainty that remains for a man after he has lost everything...Death, at least, will never forget me. There's nothing psychological in the description of all this; with almost romantic overtones he describes the essence of a life that is being extinguished and how in every man and every animal the spirit of survival is so strong...In the description of an approaching death there is a profound and visceral reminder of the ethical sense of life, of its value, of the knowledge of being part of a whole and to recognise, amid the evils that lurk in our society, the value of choice and of taking a stand. Life cannot exist without death and in a certain way the author asks the reader to choose which side they are on...
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