Le Dernier Jour D'un Condamné (1829)
ISBN:
9782218739330 (221873933X)
Publish date: 2002
Publisher: Hatier
Pages no: 152
Edition language: French
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Politics,
Philosophy,
19th Century,
Roman,
France,
French Literature
This is a work somewhere between a long short story and a short novella. It concerns, as the title suggests, the last days of a condemned man. It focuses on the emotional life of the condemned man and is an indictment of capital punishment. Included with the work is a preface that is an angry ess...
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.
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