After my last reading of Hugo's 93 I realised that what makes this work a masterpiece is the author's ability to stop writing in the right places and restraining himself from commenting too much. As you say, only one sentence on Saint-Just (the view of the main figures from the revolutionary stage is a gem). Same with the structure of the ending: if he had not have finished right where he did and added more text, it would have been in my eyes maybe not ruined, but much worse (that's where, in my opinion, Charles Dickens fails with A Tale of the Two Cities).
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Date: 2009-11-03 08:59 pm (UTC)