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The article would better be titled, "How Les Misérables changed the world." Its impact is sadly lost in generations since who would rather view the film or mus
by david927 10y ago
The article would better be titled, "How Les Misérables changed the world." Its impact is sadly lost in generations since who would rather view the film or musical at the expense of reading the novel.
I'm not surprised it's also the most adapted novel of all time as it is, in my opinion, the greatest novel ever written and a monument to what literature can be. But I definitely worry that its impact will be more and more limited by alternatives to simply reading the original.
- decasteve 10y ago> the most adapted novel of all time... I'm a little surprised by that fact. I had always assumed The Three Musketeers was the most adapted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Musketeers_in_film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Musketeers_in_film (If you count the bullet points, it's pretty close...57 vs 65?)
- pathsjs 10y agoI read the book and found all the characters extremely simplified and shallow. I guess the audience was not ready for sophisticated personalities - there are the evil Thenardier, the saint Myriel, the disgraced Cosette... Most books written today are better written than that
- pavel_lishin 10y ago> The article would better be titled, "How Les Misérables changed the world." I don't think the article really answers that. It just posits that it did, and offers nothing to back that up.