reetings, my fellow book-lovers!
Today, I am incredibly excited to bring you a wonderfully honest and thoughtful essay from Elle Griffin.
Elle almost needs no introduction on Substack, but if you are somehow unaware of her great work, she writes The Elysian. Here, Elle explores ideas that could lead to a better form of capitalism, democracy, and humanity, and serialises her utopian fiction novels.
As well as writing excellent, thought-provoking fiction and non-fiction, Elle has also managed to build an incredible community on her Substack. It’s more enlightened French salon than angry internet forum (quite some feat when discussing politics online!), and exactly the kind of thing I’d love The Books That Made Us to become. If you like it here, you’ll love it there too!
Her piece today reflects on Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, the flawed nature of human beings, and what it should mean to be a good person. It’s an doozy. Enjoy!
— M. E. Rothwell
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