The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Miserables by Mario Vargas Llosa (Hardcover, 2007)

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Hugo, Vargas Llosa says, had at least two goals in Les Miserables--to create a complete fictional world and, through it, to change the real world. Despite the impossibility of these aims, Hugo makes them infectious, sweeping up the reader with his energy and linguistic and narrative skill.