"Condemned to death." The reader knows nothing of his name or his crime. Instead, they helplessly witness the final thoughts and anguish of an individual who cries out his humanity and his will to live. But how can one fight against the implacable machinery of a blind institution called "Justice"? Outraged by the spectacle of an execution by guillotine, Victor Hugo wrote this short novel as a merciless indictment of judicial barbarity, coupled with a true humanist manifesto.
