Les Miserables
(Victor Hugo)
The work Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, has as its main subject the highest human values. The ex-convict Jean-Val Jean, who had paid his debt for stealing a piece of bread to feed himself, when he gets out of prison, where he had become a myth due to his great physical strength, goes to live at the house of a priest. Intimately angry for the years of suffering and feeling like a victim of an injustice because of the discrepancy between the punishment and the crime, he used the non-observamce of the clergyman and took several valuable objects from his residence. Being once again captured by the police, the priest didn't hesitate in exempting him from all charges, affirming he had donated those objects to him, teaching like that the greatest lessons our main character took throughout his whole life, that happiness is in giving. In the years to come, Jean Val Jean obtained great success as a businessman and through the learned lessons upon the brief contact with the priest he devoted himself continuously to solidarity causes. The scene is the French Revolution and all the situations originated by those kinds of political, economical and socialinstability.The work of Victor Hugo is simply one of the greatest classics of literature and deserves to be read by all those who appreciate not only the good reading but also the adventure and the richness of plot and vocbulary.
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