Valjean, opening other people’s mail is a federal crime…
The number of fortuitous occurrences that have to happen in this scene alone to ensure the letter ends up in Valjean’s hands…untenable.
The symbolism of Gavroche breaking lamps on a bourgeoisie street is either symbolism so blatantly obvious that I don’t really need to say anything or so complexly layered that I don’t even want to try.
“In violent emotions, we do not read, we prostrate the paper which we hold…we run to the end, we leap to the beginning; the attention has a fever…it seizes a point, and all the rest disappears.” This is me reading all the barricade scenes even thought I know what happens. I can and will strangle this brick.
“I only have to let things take their course. That man cannot escape. If he is not dead yet, it is certain he will die. What happiness!” The spectre of Champmathieu rises again. Would you have an innocent man die for your own security, Valjean?
This is the French 19th century version of Mambo No. 5. Wilbour is a coward because he tries to abridge the repeating lyrics of the song for formatting purposes. Like we’re really concerned about page economy at this point!
“His face, an inexhaustible repertory of masks, made more convulsive and more fantastic grimaces than the mouths of a torn cloth in a heavy wind.” This is an absolutely ghastly image that reminds me of a favorite painting of mine by Léon Cogniet. The savage, transformative glory of revolution.
Tune in this week for Gavroche’s devastating roast of a National Guard. I need to find a decent translation of his song posthaste because I’m sensing a rather abrupt political turn in its last verses. “Gavroche’s adventure...is one of the most terrible reminiscences of the old bourgeois of the Marais, and is entitled in their memory: Nocturnal attack on the post of the Imprimerie Royal.” He indeed fights like twenty armies.
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After reading Cosette’s note to Marius, Valjean sits outside on the porch and Goes Through It. The noise of fighting in the streets barely shakes him back to reality.
Gavroche appears and starts looking into windows. Valjean asks him what he’s looking for, and Gavroche picks up a rock and throws it at a streetlamp.
Valjean gives him a hundred sous. Gavroche tries to give it back, but Valjean insists.
Gavroche tells him that he’s looking for Number 7, and Valjean realizes he’s there to deliver a letter to Cosette from her Mystery Lover. Valjean tells him to give it to him. Gavroche tells him that the response can be sent to the barricade at the Rue de Chanvrerie.
Then Gavroche runs into the darkness, accompanied by the sound of more shattering streetlamps.
This exchange always makes me smile: Gav refusing JVJ’s money on principle until JVJ gives him the go-ahead to smash lamps. Go, go tiny force of chaos!
The line that ‘what’s the matter is that I’m hungry’ is heart-breaking-ly perfect for the conversation and the book itself. And then I remember Gavroche has just under 12 hours to live and won’t get something to eat or a chance to spend the 5 francs he just got and now I’m really sad again.
JVJ uses ‘tu’ to Gavroche, who uses ‘vous’ to JVJ (but GAv is on informal terms with the street itself).
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I honestly like this chapter, even if the angst intrudes when we hear the first attack (RIP Bahorel). It's mostly JVJ being clever (quest items acquired: letter to Cosette and knowledge of Marius's barricade whereabouts), and Gavroche being destructively endearing.
Ok, I mostly just love that Gav takes a principled stand against being bribed out of committing vandalism, and JVJ explicitly saying he can break whatever he wants.
[Per age customs, Gav get tu from JVJ, calls him vous in return.]
Brick!club 1/18-1/19/2014 Les Miserables 4.15.2, 4.15.3
...I do believe I've completely lost my ability to process. OH WELL waiting ain't making anything better, into the bright shiny incoherent future!
I love that what brings Valjean out of his internal darkness is A SMALL BOY WANDERING ONTO HIS PATH. The parallel is so neat, and it's so naturally part of the story (unlike, say, Valjean's whole MUST BE THE BARRICADES insight before), and I COMPLETELY HADN'T NOTICED IT UNTIL NOW? And I mean, the symbol of the wandering child as defenceless innocence etc. is really great and all, but also I think-- oh gad I wish I could articulate, FUTURE ME I AM SORRY-- I think there's an important evidence on Valjean's internal state in how he reacts? in both cases? Like, with Petit-Gervais, Valjean's still acting out of anger and hate, he's in a mode of sort of, of, reflexive cruelty?, even to the least threatening possible other person, even when he himself has just been shown kindness. That kindness wasn't part of him yet, it was external, it was a confusing happenstance, like weather.
But here, he's in his darkest pit ever (...for the moment) and hey, here comes this kid, and his AUTOMATIC reaction is to try and give him money, try to reach out and help. EVEN IN HIS WORST POSSIBLE STATE, even when he's really just frozen with hate and despair, Valjean's been being kind and giving so long that it's become his nature. Whatever momentary rage he's got going on-- acting in hate is just not something he's capable of anymore. And note that he DOESN'T act in hate-- he acts in concern, it's CARING that gets him up and moving again, where rage and hate had frozen him. He's not totally self aware, he's sure not emotionally clear, but he's cultivated his own self to respond to very different cues than what used to move him. Fear and anger don't WORK anymore; he's moved toward the good now, rather than away from the bad.
And OH GEEZ GAVROCHE, I freely admit NOTHING HERE IS SUBTLE but WOW it is SUPER LAYERED? Because yeah okay Light is Good, Light Enlightens, This Light is Symbolic and Gavroche is not just dousing but SHATTERING it--but he's bringing a very specific darkness with him, the darkness of the barricade, the darkness that HAS TO come before true light. "It's Ninety-Three all over", indeed. And he's bringing it to Valjean, who's been sitting all Officially Stone, lost in his own internal darkness in the middle of this real physical light.
And also, we know the gamin are presented as a symptom of what's wrong with society at this point, AND RIGHTLY SO; but they are ONLY a symptom, an innocent symptom, no one could have done less than a child to serve or deserve the cruelty of society. But here Gavroche is, still a sign, and a call to action in so many ways. He calls the lamps out of order, he says the columns of the Archives should be broken down to make barricades. Out of order, sitting lost in your own light while the world around you struggles in darkness; out of order, grand monuments to the past while the future tears its way out of the streets. This poor old country, aren't you going to do something for her? Come into the darkness, or the darkness will come to you.
Valjean's not quite there, not quite yet, but he's not hiding from the darkness now either. Break as many lamps as you like. He's already IN the darkness, he's just got to get going through. And Gavroche just told him which direction to move, too.
4.15.3 While Cosette and Toussaint Sleep
We're told Valjean's committed a kind of theft again, ouch (and wiht more predator-beast imagery!). I can't disagree; he's stealing information, he's stealing Cosette's chance to make her own decisions, he's acting NOT REAL GOOD here.
But he's still just not capable of ACTING this way.If ALL he felt about the Marius Event were hate and anger and possessiveness, he wouldn't act at ALL-- morning would find him still with that letter, and Cosette would read it like Marius planned (....DAMMIT, Marius, this is NEVER going to have been okay) and the only difference would be that Valjean would have known first. Hey! He could even lie to Cosette about having known where Marius was! She'd be all grief-stricken and maybe never reach out to the world again, she'd be his, all his, forever, and WOULDN'T THAT BE GREAT?
...No. No it would not, it would be awful, and he knows it, because he DOES love Cosette, however awkward he may be at it, and THAT'S WHAT MAKES HIM ACT anymore. And so Valjean's off to the barricades, deeper into the shadow.
Brick!Club 4.15.2-3 Awesome Gavroche and the problems of a Conscience
4.15.2
It's unfair really what Hugo is doing here. He's making me adore Gavrcoche and I know what's going to happen and it's going to be painful and Hugo is being horrid by rubbing in his evilness with this look of see how precocious and sassy and wonderful this gamin is and he's heading back to the barricade so we know what could happen... and even if I hadn't seen the musical I have read Bleak House and it means I don't trust authors of works making social points to not kill off characters to make a point of some sort... poor Jo.... poor poor Jo.... *tries not to think of Richard and Ada and what was never to be as that is the evilness of Dickens that Hugo hasn't yet resorted to.* Anyhow I digress... alot.
I'll leave the discussion of Valjean to others as I'd rather concentrate on being bemused by the interaction between him and Gavroche.
Gavroche and the lamp. And the suggestion of building another barricade. It makes me smile...
And when Valjean gives him the money and Valjean says he can still break lamps... I love it.
And then messing up his mysterious exit with breaking another lamp.
No analysis here. Just enjoying the loveliness of a fairly not sad chapter while I can.
4.15.3
"Pleased with the darkness like an owl that holds his prey." Wha...? I am somewhat confused by this analogy... I think a more a propos thing to say would be a quote of some 13 dwarves "We like the dark. Dark for dark business." and reading some one elses note and being kind of glad that the writer will die so you and Cosette will be together is dark business.
I'm getting though this delightful mental image of Valjean marching out of his house kind of stuffily with this sorta annoyed expression of "you know having a conscience really sucks sometimes." I could be reading into things a bit but the fact that he's gloomy after considering "Hey he'll die and my problems will be over!" really suggests that his innate goodness is getting to him and he can't act selfishly even if he wants to. Hence my current mental image of a pouting annoyed Valjean marching to possibly go help.
