/lit/ - Literature

>>11358190

White people have been writing about how terrible the world is and strawmanning a bunch of white oppressors into cliche roles for centuries. Why is it only bad when minorities do it?

>be escaped convict
>become mayor of city and owner of a factory
>improve the lives of hundreds of people
>some random bumfuck gets arrested for your crime
>sacrifice all the good you've done for the sake of one person
>your factory is likely in the hands of your rapist foreman now
>the city is now overtaken by greedy fucks who will screw over the laboring class

What did Victor Hugo mean by this?

Outside of Victor Hugo's novels, what are some fiction novels with extended pieces of non-fiction in them?

Could a modern fiction novel get away with going on a 100+ page tangent about a historical event?

>>8441712

Predictable first response. Should have clarified that Jean Valjean's death in Les Miserables made me cry.

ITT: wildly misinterpret the moral of a book.

>only pretty girls get the guy, so ugly girls should just kill themselves

>it's a Waterloo chapter

>>6628986

muh translation

Post your favorite book, others guess your age