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Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs (first published under the French title L'Homme qui Rit in April 1869) is a sad and sordid tale -- not the sort of tale of the moment Hugo was known for. It starts on the night of January 29, 1690, a ten-year-old boy abandoned -- the stern men who've kept him since infancy have wearied of him. The boy wanders, barefoot and starving, through a snowstorm to reach a gibbet bearing the corpse of a hanged criminal. Beneath the gibbet is a ragged woman, frozen to death. The boy is about to move onward when he hears a sound within the woman's garments: He discovers an infant girl, barely alive, clutching the woman's breast. A single drop of frozen milk, resembling a pearl, is on the woman's lifeless breast . . .
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L'homme Qui Rit, Victor Hugo
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- Titel
- L'homme Qui Rit
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Victor Hugo
- Verlag
- LEGARE STREET PR
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2022
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 306
- ISBN13
- 9781015445116
- Reihe
- Der Mann, der lacht
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historische Romane, Klassiker, Frankreich, England, Französische Literatur, Verfilmt, 18. Jahrhundert, 17. Jahrhundert, Kindesentführungen, 17.-18. Jahrhundert
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1869
- Originaltitel
- ĽHomme qui rit
- Bewertung
- 4,3 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs (first published under the French title L'Homme qui Rit in April 1869) is a sad and sordid tale -- not the sort of tale of the moment Hugo was known for. It starts on the night of January 29, 1690, a ten-year-old boy abandoned -- the stern men who've kept him since infancy have wearied of him. The boy wanders, barefoot and starving, through a snowstorm to reach a gibbet bearing the corpse of a hanged criminal. Beneath the gibbet is a ragged woman, frozen to death. The boy is about to move onward when he hears a sound within the woman's garments: He discovers an infant girl, barely alive, clutching the woman's breast. A single drop of frozen milk, resembling a pearl, is on the woman's lifeless breast . . .