The Gueux's allegations

CLAUDIO GUEUX of 1834, brilliant short novel by Victor Hugo, one of the undoubted precursors of French Utopian socialism, in 1834 the French bourgeois revolution and the Napoleonic empire had already happened, however it is to note that the French socio-political regime, no longer clerical or aristocratic, remained just as unfair to the poor and dispossessed, The end of the novel, when the author launches his thesis of profound social protest, has unfortunately not lost a drop of dramatic relevance despite the improvement of prison regimes and a more humane application of capital punishment, which in turn comes before the wave of unjust crimes against the civilian population that occurred throughout the twentieth century, whose roots are to be found in the socio-psychological alignment tinged by hard drugs, alcoholism and the strong contradictions between the isolated and cornered individual and society, and including the problem of serial killers in its sinister magnitude, the truth is that Hugo's story seems to be made today without any need for translation or temporal adaptation.