PREFACE
So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century-- the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light-- are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862.
作者简介与作品 About Author 维克多.雨果 Victor Hugo 雨果(1802―1885),出生于法国东部的贝藏松,他的父亲曾是拿破仑部下的将军。
11岁时跟着母亲和两个哥哥返回巴黎,居住在一所古老的修道院里。雨果从小爱好文学,崇拜法国早期浪漫主义作家夏多布里昂。
1827年雨果发表剧本《克伦威尔》及其《序言》,剧本因不符合舞台艺术的要求未能演出。
但《序言》却成为当时浪漫主义运动的重要宣言,雨果本人亦因此而被公认为浪漫主义运动的领袖。
雨果著述颇丰,主要作品有长篇小说《巴黎圣母院》、《悲惨世界 》、《九三年》等.