Les Misérables: Victor Hugo, Revolution, and French History
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
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🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Corey Mohler from Existential Comics returns to the show to discuss the famous novel (and its many adaptations) by Victor Hugo "Les Misérables".
Together they discuss the novel, its various adaptations, its political and social themes, 19th Century France, the "Giants of '93", read some passages from the book, and discuss its ongoing legacy and relevance for us today!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio. On today's episode we have |
| 0:10.0 | back on the show Corey Moller from existential comics. He's been on the show a few times. I think our last episode was the episode we did on the Russian novelist Dostoevsky. He's back on today to talk about the novel by Victor Hugo Le Miserab. |
| 0:25.9 | Of course it's been adapted in the musicals, in the movies, the abridged version. |
| 0:29.9 | There was a BBC adaptation for radio, etc's lived on through the years the novel was |
| 0:36.2 | written in 1862 and still in the 20th century we had many adaptations and today you know college and high school students |
| 0:44.8 | still learn about it and it's just an interesting work of art as well as an |
| 0:50.0 | interesting work of history because it covers a certain period in French history |
| 0:54.1 | between the French Revolution and the Paris Commune that a lot of us especially outside of |
| 0:59.4 | France don't know much about and the themes in which the novel the themes at the novel |
| 1:04.8 | explores are those totally in line with the with the political left broadly and so |
| 1:10.0 | me and Corey really dive into it and we explore the the work of art by Victor |
| 1:15.7 | Hugo. So this is a really interesting conversation now if you are very |
| 1:19.4 | familiar with Lay Mizorab this will be a fascinating conversation to sort of get some, you know, |
| 1:24.3 | analysis and pull out some certain themes and the stuff that we talk about will be interesting |
| 1:29.2 | to you. And if you've never heard it at all, don't feel, you know, scared to listen to this episode. |
| 1:35.0 | You know, listen to this episode and then go watch the musical or watch the movie or |
| 1:38.8 | heaven forbid read the incredibly long novel. |
| 1:42.1 | That would be, you know, an honorable thing to do. So yeah, |
| 1:44.4 | whether you're a very well versed in this or never even heard the phrase |
| 1:49.0 | lay miser-rob in your life, this this episode will still connect with you and still offer something. |
| 1:55.3 | So without further ado here's my conversation with Corey on Victor Hugo's |
| 1:59.3 | late misera. I'm Corey Moeller best known for doing existential comics and actually in a couple weeks it'll be 10 years doing it so that's kind of a milestone but |
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