[ 5.0 stars ]
"A Christ of a novel. Epic in canvas and scale. The novel is the Tarot of novels. The Transfigured Man, Jean Valjean, passes from despair through the Stations of Agony to arrive at Grace. The movies and the plays move, but the novel annihilates. I picked this translation because it was (and remains?) the only complete, unabridged translation. If I have understood my facts right, the novel was not c ..."
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which was written on October 20, 2013
Review fetched on October 26, 2013 by Books Central.