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The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and "Les Misérables" Hardcover – April 23, 2007

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  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press (April 23, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0691131112
  • ISBN-13: 978-0691131115
  • Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 0.8 x 8.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,725,738 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 starsOne Great Novelist Reads Another
By Waxwing Slayne on July 30, 2008
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If you've just read Les Miserables, then read this book immediately, while Hugo's vast masterpiece is still resonating in your mind. Mario Vargas Llosa talks about everything you hope he'll talk about: each important character, the themes, the digressions, the religiosity, the sewers, and most of all, Hugo's monumental ambition to produce a work that contains the world (his temptation to do the impossible). Once you've finished, you'll want to read more Mario Vargas Llosa, if not more Hugo.
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4.0 out of 5 starsA Temptation to read Les Miserables
By Anthony Schaeve on November 3, 2007
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Vargas Llosa's entertaining and informative discussion has made me go back and reread Victor Hugo's classic.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat insight
By Alfred J. Garrotto on April 5, 2008
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Mario Vargas Llosa provides a unique insight into Hugo's classic novel. It blew me away.

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