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I haven’t read Les Miserables. I’m sure its great. But depicting battles scenes is not what makes W&P, W&P. 12 chapters of Waterloo for waterloo’s sake is mean
by msviss 8y ago
I haven’t read Les Miserables. I’m sure its great. But depicting battles scenes is not what makes W&P, W&P.
12 chapters of Waterloo for waterloo’s sake is meaningless.
- cafard 8y agoVictor Hugo was born to make Tolstoy seem laconic. Tolstoy can be prolix, but Austerlitz and Borodino are critical to the action of the novel. Waterloo has a minor plot justification inn Les Miserable, but most of the twelve chapters on Waterloo are just Hugo's excuse for spinning his theories.
- baud147258 8y agoI'm pretty sure Hugo being a fan of Napoleon helped.
- cafard 8y agoQuite. But somebody commenting mentioned Stendhal, who greatly admired Napoleon, and who managed to keep his account of Waterloo far shorter.
- baud147258 8y agoGood point. I don't know very well Stendhal, thank you.