We present two small works by the famous French writer Victor Hugo.
The story “The Execution of Claude Gueux” (1834) contains Hugo’s early thoughts about social injustice, which thirty years later he will present in his novel “Les Misérables.”
In the novella “The Last Day of a Condemned Man to Death” (1829), the thoughts of a person sentenced to death are shown. At the same time, Hugo wonders: where does one person get the right to take another’s life?