Anatomy of a Fugitive

Victor Hugo's Les Misérables is read as a love story, a heist narrative, a redemption epic. But what if it's something far more radical: a forensic examination of how the Law manufactures the very criminals it claims to punish?Anatomy of a Fugitive reinterprets Les Misérables from the ground up, tracking the precise machinery by which Jean Valjean—a man convicted of stealing bread to feed his sist...