Outcasts. Set in 2 books

The epic of Viktor Hugo “The outcasts” (1862) is the result of the twenty-year work of the writer, a vast canvas, without which it is impossible to imagine the spiritual history of the 19th century. This work, especially well -taken and participated on Russian soil, since the idea of ​​“restoring the deceased person, which was laid down in it, which was unjustly crushed by the oppression of circumstances, stagnation of centuries and public prejudices” (F.M. Dostoevsky) found and continues to find a hot response in the hearts of Russians readers.
The names of the heroes of the novel - Jean Valzhan, Kozetta, Gavrosh - have long become household, and the tempting combination of the grotesque and romance, sentimentalism and realism, along with a tense, exciting plot on the eternal theme of the “struggle of good and evil,” led to the frequent appeal of the world cinema