Title: Grim masterpiece
Product review: This is a true masterpiece of 19th century French literature. Its description of two friends' promising beginings, full of idealism and high aspirations which in the end come to naught, crushed by the hum-drum mediocrity of daily life, remains unmatched.Watching the hero stumble along his path, making his rather foolish errors is extremely frustrating, but these mis-steps are all too realistic. Ultimately one might say, that is the source of the work's "grimmness" (and its greatness) - it is real.The english translation here is nicely done, if you can't read the original french, this is about as close as one can get.
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