Special Episode 03 - Even More Film Commentary!!
We finish up the 2012 movie musical -- with watch-along commentary!!
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The Podcast about Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. In each episode, I will comment on a section of the book, to make it a bit less daunting, and hopefully help you enjoy it a bit more. I am a p...
We finish up the 2012 movie musical -- with watch-along commentary!!
We tackle the middle section of the 2012 movie musical. Watch along!
We end this series by stepping back and thinking about this journey as a whole.
Here's some more information about Victor Hugo's Poor Children's Dinners . Now that we're "done" (we'll never be done) with Les Misérables ,...
Even the darkest night will end.....
Here's what the last page of the manuscript looks like: ( source ) You can see here that Hugo originally had a different epitaph, which he c...
The more some people change, the more they stay the same.
In addition to writing, Hugo could do other things with ink-- here are some of his drawings , along with a bit of discussion of them.
In which I offer explanation, but not comfort, at this sad turn of events.
Today, too, there's nothing in particular outside the text to send you to for further exploration. I think it's interesting that this starts...
A day of confession and penance, deserved or not.
No particular extras for this, but, if you watched the recent adaptation of Les Misérables on the BBC/PBS, you might be entertained to look...
More delays, more excuses. But I hope it will be worth it.
Celebration, anguish, and how this all comes together at Mardi Gras.
Here's Juliette Drouet... ...in 1832: ...and in 1883: For more information about her -- and there's lots more that I didn't have time to inc...
Our characters are suddenly unrecognizable -- or are they?
Our characters are suddenly unrecognizable -- or are they?
Just one extra tidbit today: the promised information about the corbeille de noces , or corbeille de mariage .
Javert joins the last group in the world that he wanted to join.
I've added the location of Javert's reflection and his final moments to our Google map , in the Part V layer. For those who are interested,...
As you may have noticed, it's taken me a minute to get my final thoughts on this miniseries adaptation of Les Misérables in order--there wer...
In which we get some surprising déjà vu....
No particular extras today... but my final thoughts on Les Misérables on PBS will be along soon....
I think we all learned a lesson tonight: Hugo didn't know that cinema would be invented within a half-century of when he wrote Les Misérable...
OK, so let's just get this out of the way: THERE IS NO BROTHEL SCENE IN LES MISÉRABLES. Also, Éponine is not in the business of free peep sh...
Jean Valjean wrestles with what he finds beneath the streets.
Here's the 1830 map again for your convenience, if you'd like to try to locate Jean Valjean's approximate trajectory through the sewers. And...
Some themes seem to be emerging, as we're half way through the series.... Lily Collins continued to do amazing work tonight, and the headlin...
I was really interested in how HUMAN the Thénardiers were when we met them tonight. In the book making them monsters has its own advantages...
Opening at Waterloo, in a HUGE visual spectacle would be Hugo-approved. He saw Waterloo as an entryway into the novel, whereas a lot of adap...
I'm going to be commenting on #LesMisPBS here for the next few weeks, so in preparation, I thought I'd say a few words about adaptation. Peo...
In which I explain what the holdup is, and what you can do while you're waiting for me to get my act together.
A whole new view of what's below Paris's streets. It's not pretty, but that's what's great about it.
For more reading about Paris's sewers, consider David Pike's Subterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London, 1800–1945 . (Cornell U...
Friendship, rescue, and contemplating defeat, as the uprising comes to an end.
Nothing in particular in the way of informative extras today, so I'll give you just a taste of the vast fandom that Enjolras and Grantaire h...
The perils of being trapped inside, and of getting out.
I promised to once again link to the fable of The Wolf and the Dog, here, La Fontaine's version in French , which Hugo would likely have kno...
In which we're surprised to learn who might be on the other side of the barricade.
If you want to learn more about 1848, and are a fan of this genre, I once again recommend the Revolutions podcast . Series 7 covers the Revo...
Jean Valjean can still surprise us.... or can he?
If you're interested in learning more about the fascinating life of George Sand, this book is a good place to start. Or, for a shorter commi...
What do our characters gain when they have nothing left to lose?
Just one extra to offer you today: here again are the Google map and the 1830 map , if you want to trace Marius's route to the barricade.
We continue to explore what goes into a barricade.
First, some pictures of barricades. This page has a series of pictures of historical barricades built during various uprisings in Paris. It'...
Gavroche and Mabeuf join the cause.
A few different online treats for this week. First, this blog might be useful again for those interested in the geographical details of this...
All you'll need to know about the 1832 Paris Uprising.
Here is a link to a blog where you will find excellent and detailed map work on these sections of Les Misérables . And here is the promised...