Victor Hugo was twenty-six when he wrote in two months and a half, The Last Day of a Condemned, a novel that is probably the most vehement indictment never spoke against the death penalty. We will not know who is sentenced, we know nothing of the crime he committed. For the purpose of the author is not to enter into a debate, but to exhibit the horror and absurdity of the situation in which there is any man who is going to decide in the neck few hours. This novel - often strangely modern accents - has such a power of suggestion that the drive becomes identified with whom he shares the narrator turns anxiety and vain hopes. Until the last lines of the book, the genius of Victor Hugo participate in us waiting frightened: that squeaking noise that will the ax rushing into the rails of the guillotine. Anyone who has read this book will ever forget this striking writing lesson and humanity.

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