Les Misérables. L'intégrale

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Michel Vuillermoz, Élodie Huber, Pierre-François Garel, Louis Arène, Mathurin Voltz

Length: 56 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

Un enregistrement exceptionnel : les cinq volumes des Misérables, un des plus grands romans de la littérature française, enfin disponibles en livre audio.

Jean Valjean, Cosette, les Thénardier, Gavroche, ou encore Javert sont autant de noms qui résonnent au-delà de l'histoire qui les a fait naître. Ces misérables sont décrits à la fois comme des archétypes du genre humain, mais aussi comme les produits d'une société génératrice de pauvreté, d'ignorance et de désespoir.

©Domaine public (P)2011 Éditions Thélème

Masterpiece

Be ready to have your heart squeezed and lifted and smashed and lifted again to finish in pieces but also at peace… Victor Hugo is a master of words and his story has incredible depth.
The performance is also outstanding!

100% recommended!

No need to comment on the book as everyone knows it is one of the pillars of classic litterature. The narrators were marvelous, each one had a different style and I love each one of them. Thank you so much!!! I would recommend, no hesitation!!!

a classic for slow

a classic but story is so slow.
the readers are great, although a little slow (recommend speed 1.3)

Quelle merveille de litterature, et d'histoire !

une oeuvre gigantesque et une narration "de relais" d'une prosodie impeccable. l'effort et l'excellente diction, fait hommage ce chef d'oeuvre

Véritable chef d'oeuvre

Une oeuvre incroyable, intemporelle et indispensable.
Livre à lire ou à écouter.
Une fierté nationale.

Perfect way to read Victor Hugo's entire book

I was very pleased with everything about Victor Hugo's creation. I am not good at expressing myself but I will say that I looked forward each day to the pleasure of listening and falling in love or exasperation with the characters who are so imperfectly human. The time spent on the history of the period was worth the read and is certainly an important part of this worldly novel.

Best (long) novel I've heard so far!!!

The author has a great mastery of the French language and uses it in its majestic beauty. The plotline is really good! In many ways it feels strange that Les Miserables was written so long ago; the work seems strikingly relevant to contemporary ears. I came to this novel, partly because of the movie/musical of a few years back. However as they say: "the book always beats the movie" -- and it was a great movie! Victor Hugo disolay a simple but profound knowledge of human complexity played out in the grand context of the famed French revolution(s). The readers had all a good performance. Detailed descriptions (and digressions) in the book might feel overly elaborate at times, making the listener want to jump forward to the actual description of the events, but it is worth sticking through all the details. Very glad I did. What a book!

More than one narrator

Different narrator are reading different tomes, but overall all very good (some better than others).

Un Chef-d'oeuvre de tous les temps

Where does Les Misérables : L'intégrale rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

The best by far. Of course for fluent French speaking people.

What did you like best about this story?

The most vivid of early 19th century historical background

What about the narrators’s performance did you like?

All five narrators had different talents and they were all sincere and passionate

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Les Miserables!

Any additional comments?

I enjoyed all the many digressions. The one that would be most difficult for non French speakers would be the one on "argot". It can be skipped.

Narrator is brilliant

I’m primarily reviewing the recording.

I was delighted by the subtle variations employed by the narrator to distinguish characters. At once they are almost imperceptible, and yet admirably representative.