Les miserables why its banned

In the heat of revolutionary upheaval, these transcendent types, horrified by the specter of the underclasses taking power into their own hands, decide to restore order at all costs. Accustomed to traditional forms of power and frightened of witnessing the overturning of privilege, the well-meaning liberal decides to stop the slide into deeper revolution at any cost.

The problem of course is that once the subaltern have been shot dead, their neighborhoods invaded and triturated and countless others repressed and jailed, there is no social force remaining to fight the forces of looming right-wing reaction. In this way law-and-order liberals become the handmaidens of dictatorship. Eventually his journalist sons would end up in jail and Hugo in the sunset of the Second Republic found himself on the side of the barricade that only years before he had invaded and destroyed in the name of order and civilization.

Other liberal representatives of the dissolving Assembly would die on the barricades of December But Hugo, for all his hatred of the new emperor would avoid heroic death and choose exile. He returned as a hero and lived through the Prussian siege of the city by eating fauna from the zoos. Hugo would successfully work for her release from prison in December and later dedicated a poem Viro Major Greater Hero to her after reading a poem which she dedicated to her fallen comrades.

The history of the Commune, and the 35, men and women murdered by the French army under the watchful eye of their Prussian victors is one of the more tragic events of French history. Not entirely unlike the July days of but with crucial differences, once again we have a newborn Republic proving its ability to govern by bloodily crushing the more radical demands of workers. With the victorious Prussian army having encircled Paris, the provisional government desired a speedy peace with the Germans, promising them a huge war debt and the territories of Alsace and Lorraine.

Hugo was initially elected to this Republican government, but quickly found himself isolated on the Left. After a humiliating defeat and the unexpected birth of the Commune, the French Republic found a scapegoat in radicals, but Hugo refused to take part in this.

If Hugo was too lofty a personality to respect and fully defend the political legacy of the Commune, he would at least spend the subsequent years fighting for the political amnesty of the Communards and activists who had escaped the bullets of a cynical regime, but in danger of life in prison.

The fragile and nervous French government worked to expel him from Belgium. He relocated to Luxembourg and continued his critique of the Third Republic which desired legitimacy and would eventually last until , but could only do so by using the techniques and tactics of a police state: suspending the rule of law, continuing a state of siege and terror to ensure the inviolability of property and the profits of financial markets which performed beautifully; the war debt was paid off early.

But it allows us a glimpse of a consciousness under transition, willing to have his convictions under a constant process of revision.

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Wolf Baldassarro is an American poet, writer, and columnist. Some of the most popular and influential authors today have been banned at one to another. Here is a list of those authors or writers with their books and discover why they have been banned:. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Many fundamentalist religious groups want to ban her books.

Yes, the same woman who wrote Are you there, God? Scott Fitzgerald His novels are degrading and upsetting towards the reader. Not bad for the highest selling author in history. Fact: a drama teacher in the U. In particular, his novel Madame Bovary was surrounded by controversy: telling the tale of the young, pretty and frustrated Emma, the novel details her disillusionment with marriage and provincial life, and her tragic downward spiral into infidelity and debt. It was subsequently banned in France for a short period, and Flaubert was placed on trial for offenses against public decency.