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The Man Who Laughs

Victor Hugo

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Hugo wrote The Man Who Laughs, or the Laughing Man, over a period of fifteen months while he was living in the Channel Islands, having been exiled from his native France because of the controversial political content of his previous novels. Hugo's working title for this book was On the King's Command, but a friend suggested The Man Who Laughs.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .esting on him, as though to implant the idea in his head, pronounced slowly, syllable by syllable, these words,—

"If to-night out at sea we hear the sound of a bell, the ship is lost."

The skipper pondered in amaze.

"What do you mean?"

The doctor did not answer. His countenance, expressive for a moment, was now reserved. His eyes became vacuous. He did not appear to hear the skipper's wondering question. He was now attending to his own monologue. His lips let fall, as if mechanically, in a low murmuring tone, these words,—

"The time has come for sullied souls to purify themselves."

The skipper made that expressive grimace which raises the chin towards the nose.

"He is more madman than sage," he growled, and moved off.

Nevertheless he steered west.

But the wind and the sea were rising.

 

 

 

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شخصیت "زن" در آثار ویکتور هوگو قابل توجه است. زن ها همیشه شخصیت هایی منفعل دارند، همیشه مورد ظلم واقع می شوند، مورد عشق واقع می شوند، مورد کمک واقع می شوند، همیشه منتظرند که دیگران کاری در حقشان بکنند، چه به ستم، چه به یاری. گاه حتی حس می شود چیزی بیش از یک عروسک بی جان نیستند و فقط برای این حضور دا

I write this having just finished the last page, closed, completed, and I am breathless. Victor Hugo is not an easy read, there are moments in which he loses himself to very specific detail and matter-of-fact descriptions. But what you find interwoven through the dry passages is of such exquisite be

Nella postfazione al romanzo, Stevenson, da lucido narratore qual era, assume la parte del professore e bacchetta il caro Hugo, accusandolo di verbosità e scarsa verosomiglianza. Ha ragione. Hugo si dilunga, si infiamma su dialoghi impossibili, scene da visionario che farebbero mettere le mani nei c

- "الرجل الذي يضحك"، لا يخدعك العنوان فأنت لست مقبلاً على قصة فكاهية مضحكة او على نوع من انواع الكوميديا بل انت امام سمفونية من الألم الخالص والعذّاب المقطّر بعدة أصناف بين شخصيات هذا العمل العظيم.

ان كانت الحقيقة قبيحة، فإن ذنوبكم أقبح

- قصة جونبيلان، الفتى الذي سُرق من عائلته الثرية بعد قتل والديه،

با خواندن این کتاب میتونم عادت به پایان شیرین را از سرم برای همیشه بیرون کنم اما فقط با این شرط که روند داستان اینقدر قوی و گیرا و جذاب باشد , جوئین پلین همان مردی که میخندد , زندگیش اش بر پایه ی اوج و فرودها و بازی سرنوشت بنا شده , او پسر بچه ای از طبقه اشراف بوده که با دستور شاه قبلی انگلستان بعد

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