The justice of men, war, hunger, the cynicism of those who look the other way ... Jean Valjean suffers, but at the same time flies over, all those tragic circumstances that a literary drama needs to move. Good old Jean is the hero, among the social filth that existed in the nineteenth century in which the story takes place, but that extends to any other historical moment. Hence the easy mimicry with this character for universal literature.
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