A breathtaking virtuosity!

There are dates that stir excitement and deffroi only by their evocative power, by the bloody and burning what left her mark on history. 1793 belongs. 1793, this is the French Revolution in which it has more violent and more passionate, this is the Terror, the killing of royalty, massacres, war everywhere in the outside border, of course, but also in Vendee, where farmers and other small people lead a ruthless guerrilla army against Republican. And it is well in Vendée, earth religion, tradition and violence that takes place on the beautiful novel "Ninety-three" by Victor Hugo.

This is in Vendee that the Marquis de Lantenac brilliant general and fierce royalist, was sent to organize small bands of peasants in revolt into a real organized army. There, he was unpleasantly surprised to find the head of the republican forces his nephew Gawain, joined by young noble idealism of the Revolution values. Suffice to say that the reunion will not be the warmest At this duo, the character sajoute Cimourdain, the adoptive father of Gawain and also ardent republican, as fanatical in his hatred of the aristocracy that old Lantenac in its blind devotion to the cause the monarchy. Three characters, three irreconcilable conceptions of France, the honor and duty that will saffronter in Vendée forests where nature itself seems to have entered the war alongside the belligerents. You too can imagine that all this will end badly, eh?

Read the first novel by Victor Hugo: first slap! Two years later, jen am still giddy and marrive regularly reread a passage by one, over there and find each time the same raw emotion Quà the first discovery. I read several other books of Mr. Hugo since, but none as deep as my marked "Ninety-three," the latest novel by the author and perhaps the purest and most devoid literary dartifices (check, having said that, I must also read one or two of his works for a final opinion). Everything is perfect in this book: the superb style, the historical context restored with enthusiasm and passion, human feelings shelled with astounding subtlety I can only minsurger loudly against readers who dare to claim overly stereotypical characters! Certainly, they each have a great symbolic vivid illustrations of conflicts and ambiguities of their age but they are also terribly human, in all that humanity has more fragile, more fallible and more touching. And Hugo didnt like him to break this humanity, not in rhetoric, but in a sentence, a word, and in the case of the terrible Marquis de Lancenac a gesture.

"Ninety-three," also this is a terribly dark vision of the French Revolution (oh, the magnificent passage gathering Robespierre, Marat and Danton wolf, snake and the Bear in a closed-door dune virtuosity breathtaking! I men never tire) Republican convinced, Victor Hugo never condemns aspirations that are the origin of the Revolution, but depicts the contradictions of a system that, by wanting to defend lacier and fire its noble ideals, eventually smother in the blood. This contradiction is illustrated by the tender and conflicted relationship between Gawain and Cimourdain Mon think the Revolution with his heart, the other with his head. This is, unfortunately, this second vision that ultimately prevail and that is under the blade of the guillotine that Hugo will destroy the last spark of purity of the First Republic. Seriously, if you do not have tears in my eyes the last lines, we must seriously consider consulting a psychiatrist

Conclusion? It really was a big big ego, Hugo, but does he quest worth the good, the guy