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- Publisher: Bantam; First THUS edition
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0006AY33O
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
I am awed.,
This review is from: Ninety-Three (Paperback)
I second all the reviews here: Victor Hugo was great, his *Ninety-Three* a masterpiece. Lovers of literature, students of history alike will enjoy this grand epic of the year 1793, its warring ideals and the giants of men who embodied them. Hugo makes history come alive, and heroes are what drive it. Every one of the novel's characters, whether an imperious general or a half-mad-with-grief, rag-clad peasant mother searching desperately for her children, has a quality absent from much of today's literature: dignity. I have read few novels that bless the reader with as pure and exalted a vision of man's majesty as this one.
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One Of The Greatest Masterpieces Of Hugo,
By Daniell Marafon (Campinas, SP Brazil) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ninety-Three (Hardcover)
It have to be sayed: "93" is one of the greatest works of Hugo! After reading many novels, poems and plays, and analyse some of his letters and other contents, I think that its almost impossible to say that "93" doesnt have passion and skills of one of the greats poets/ romancists of the XIX century. The message that an good society can be created, that every man can be a great being by his own sacrifice is touching and inspiring. "93" is more them a book, or a revolutionary testament, is an piece of art made by a dreamer that believed in a beautiful and possible society, a real humanity.
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History in the making,
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This review is from: Ninety-Three (Paperback)
Hugo was a great novelist with a gift for mixing history with fiction. Just like Dumas, only Dumas is lighter entertainment and less depth. 1793 was a crucial year for the French Revolution, and hence for human History. The Revolutionary regime was unstable, faction-ridden, while the forces of the Ancien Regime were still fighting fiercely (read Balzac's "Les Chouanes" and "A Murky Business" for other great references to alter years of this period). It is also a story of generational fighting, as well as an account of heroism in both sides. The Marquis of Lantenac is an old aristocrat fighting to restore the Regime, in the La Vendée uprising. He faces his nephew, the Vicomte of Gauvain, who fights for the Revolution. The scenery is the beautiful Bretagne, in Northern France. Hugo rounds up the story magnificently, explaining the reader what is going on in Paris with the different factions and leaders. So the story is not isolated from main historical events. These give it a full context, and in turn the story enlightens us about what the fight is about. The climax comes in the battle of La Tourgue, where uncle and nephew face each other in a dramatic fight. The revolutionaries win, but Lantenac returns to a castle, to rescue three children caught in a fire. He is imprisoned, and here the drama reaches its highest: Gauvain is told to execute his uncle. The ending is a hard confrontation between political reason and personal values, a subject explored in great literature since "Antigona", by Sofocles. It's clear why this eternal confrontation is tragic: no solution is devoid of an extremely high price. A less-known but excellent work by one of the best novelists there has been.
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