Gwynplaine keeps the lower half of his face concealed. In each town, Gwynplaine gives a stage performance in which the crowds are provoked to laughter when Gwynplaine reveals his grotesque face. The spoiled and jaded Duchess Josiana, the illegitimate daughter of King James II, is bored by the dull routine of court. Josiana attends one of Gwynplaine's performances, and is aroused by the combination of his virile grace and his facial deformity. Gwynplaine is aroused by Josiana's physical beauty and haughty demeanor.
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Later, an agent of the royal court, Barkilphedro, who wishes to humiliate and destroy Josiana by compelling her to marry the 'clown' Gwynplaine, arrives at the caravan and compels Gwynplaine to follow him. Gwynplaine is ushered to a dungeon in London, where a physician named Hardquannone is being tortured to death. Hardquannone recognizes Gwynplaine, and identifies him as the boy whose abduction and disfigurement Hardquannone arranged twenty-three years earlier. A flashback relates the doctor's story. Upon the baron's death, the King arranged the abduction of his two-year-old son and legitimate heir, Fermain.
The King sold Fermain to a band of wanderers called "Comprachicos": Lettura per niente facile. La prefazione di Jean Gaudon definisce i romanzi di Dumas "trastulli infarciti di cose inverosimili": Differenze e similitudini con I Miserabili: Una trama che poteva essere brillantemente raccontata in un centinaio di paginette viene dilatata inverosimilmente per divenire un compendio enciclopedico del tempo e dei luoghi in cui si svolge la vicenda ma anche del tempo e luoghi in cui Hugo sta narrando.
Concordo in larga parte con l'analisi di PantaleoMagrone qua sotto: Per non dire della collusione tra potere regnante e bande di malaffare, una vera e propria simbiosi allora come oggi. View all 17 comments. View all 11 comments. Three things I have say as I collect my wits from the skip that last chapter threw them in: Nineteenth-century French authors sure loved their melodrama to bits, and knew how to weave a good melodramatic yarn.
If melodrama has a good meaning, it's probably a French invention. Monsieur Hugo is a sadistic writer. Pass me some tissues, there's too many onions here. View all 8 comments. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. On a cold January night in , a ten-year-old boy is abandoned near the coast of Portland in England, left for dead by the group whom he has been residing with; Comprachicos, sellers and buyers of intentionally deformed children. The young child begins to wander the night, battered by a snowstorm and hindered by naked feet, close to death more often than he is aware of.
Eventually, his wandering leads him to the body of a woman, frozen to death by the snow, a small infant on her breast crying On a cold January night in , a ten-year-old boy is abandoned near the coast of Portland in England, left for dead by the group whom he has been residing with; Comprachicos, sellers and buyers of intentionally deformed children.
Eventually, his wandering leads him to the body of a woman, frozen to death by the snow, a small infant on her breast crying out into the dark winter, the fragile wail calling the boy to the baby. Not even deliberating, he takes the baby girl in his arms and carries her with him, shedding his own warm jacket to keep the biting chill off her skin; thus he continues, the infant wrapped in his arms and him searching for any sign of civilization.
Upon entering a town and finding no one will open their door, he comes upon the tiny caravan of the mountebank Ursus and his pet wolf, Homo, where the children are with grudging tenderness taken in by the old man, given food and clothing and a place to sleep. It is upon the following morning that Ursus makes two startling discoveries: Fifteen years later, both the boy and girl are still living with Ursus and Homo, having been adopted by the man, and now make a living from performing plays and the effect of Gwynplaine's mask of a face, which earns him the title "The Laughing Man".
However, both Gwynplaine and Dea are filled with happiness, due to the fact that they have both fallen deeply and forever in love with the other, Dea being able to see the real beauty of Gwynplaine and him so devoted to the light that is her. But what is his crime? Does he even have one? This book has so many emotions coursing through it, especially within Gwynplaine, in whom we see adoration and devotion, kindness, innocence, want and lust, the yearning for greater things, extreme pain and sorrow, temptation, and ultimately, the undying love for Dea that brings him back into the world he knows and wouldn't trade for any title.
It's a book focusing on the good and bad qualities of man, all shown within Gwynplaine, that prove us human; kindness and cruelty, love and hate, light and dark. A pretty good bit, actually. The main reason I wanted to read this book was because of the relationship between Gwynplaine and Dea; their love and life together, and eventually, both of their deaths.
I adore his devotion to her and her adoration of him, and their innocence is just so sweet and pure that it's extremely beautiful, she who's blind yet able to see beyond the deformed face of the man she loves, seeing his soul and true beauty. I had read somewhere that the end was heartbreaking, and I had a feeling that Dea would die just from interpretation and from a certain name of one of the last chapters , but that didn't soften the blow of her death any less, and I couldn't believe the way she died: Gosh, I mean, they had finally just been reunited and it was so sweet!
And Gwynplaine's reactions are so vivid and touching in these scenes; his tears and pleas for her to stay alive, and then his own suicide by walking off into the water and letting himself drown.
It's strangely romantic; the classic love story, I guess you could say. Once I got into this, I began wondering if The Man Who Laughs would have sort of a Romeo and Juliet ending, and let me tell you, this is so much better than Shakespeare's work. On another subject, Ursus: I wonder how, or if, he was able to cope with both of them dying.
Another point of the story I was drawn to was the treatment Gwynplaine receives by everyone else, the people who laugh upon seeing his face and the nobles who scorn him, even though he is revealed to be one of their peers, showing just how cruel mankind can be to anything different. Overall, my favorite thing about this story was the love between Gwynplaine and Dea, the monster and angel, and also the love their father has for them.
It's definitely one I'll read again, a story that's filled with vivid imagery and powerful words, emotions, and characters. Not an easy read, but very rewarding I have no doubt Hugo would be accused of socialism if he spoke up in modern times. But really he is anti-nobility and royalty, and uses his characters to speak up for the common man, as well as subtle digs at the rich and sheltered lords of 18th century England.
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It's the story of man who goes from one extreme to the other, and not by his choosing. He's an amazingly complex character, as are many of the supporting char Not an easy read, but very rewarding He's an amazingly complex character, as are many of the supporting characters. And quite unusual as well Homo is a most excellent and well done character. As he tells this melodrama, Hugo spends chapter upon chapter informing the reader of those times And if you're a history buff, you'll gain some fascinating insights as well.
Thanks to Trish for the recommendation! An odd yet oddly compelling historical romance set in 17th century England. I have to admit that I've started this book because the movie was released in France, and I wanted to read it before watching it. I know, I know I should have read it before and not to wait that long especially after knowing how much I loved each Hugo's book I've read. I made the mistake to buy the long version and it took me ages to read it.
But I looooved it. This book estheticism is amazing, all the characters are wonderful, complex and touching, each one in its way. Some might not like it, because of it's darkness and how depressing it can be, but this is what I like with Hugo. How its work change after his daughter's death in especially after "Les Contemplations" published 13 years before "L'Homme qui Rit" is something that touches me a lot. I won't say much more, I don't want to use spoilers, so my last advice would be: Il racconto della prima notte dura centinaia di pagine, e non sono sprecate: I nobili si odiano, e quando decidono d'incontrarsi si divertono costringendo due poveretti a farsi pugili e massacrarsi a vicenda, sotto le grida delle loro eleganti scommesse e considerazioni da intenditori.
Altrove, Hugo ha preso di mira la monarchia; qui denuncia i vizi, la violenza dell'aristocrazia - e anche nel lusso di quei palazzi non si ha mai una sensazione di luce, ma d'ombra, d'asfissia, d'inganno. Band 2 setzt ca. Troppe pagine dedicate a chi ride, troppo poche quelle dedicate all'uomo che vorrebbe non farlo. Chi legge pensa, chi pensa ragiona. Vietom buvo tikrai nelengva. Bet visa visuma patiko. View all 4 comments. As much as I know about literature, I somehow never realized quite how wonderful Hugo's books are.
One knows the stories and takes them for granted as cornerstones of 19th Century writing, but the joy of reading them or listening to them via Librivox far surpasses the mere plot elements. Encyclopedic, complex, and resolutely humanistic, they encompass vastly more than their plots.
From the chilling invention of the Comprachicos -- so awful a concept that it overshadows much of the book -- to t As much as I know about literature, I somehow never realized quite how wonderful Hugo's books are. From the chilling invention of the Comprachicos -- so awful a concept that it overshadows much of the book -- to the extended metaphor of the face of comedy carved at the behest of an evil king, the book is one terrific scene after another, woven together with historical detail, wonderful aphorisms, and characters who come vividly to life, detailed and believable in their flaws and virtues.
I liked this one a little less than Notre Dame because the long descriptions of peerage and the history of the English parliament were somewhat brain-glazing and the ending a tad too determined to be as tragic as it might possibly be. Etranger Date de parution: Cuisine Collectif Date de parution: Coffret, 10,8x23,5 cm, 32 pages. Guillaume Marinette Coffret, 96 pages. La preuve vous avez son mug. Vos tartes seront plus belle que jamais! Fabuleuse Petits Plats Date de parution: A vous de tomber Coffret, 55x31 cm, 32 pages.
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