Is Les Misérables (1862) CHUD or WOKE?
chudrank score: 63 / 100 (slightly WOKE-leaning). 0 is CHUD (right-wing), 100 is WOKE (left-wing).
Book by Victor Hugo, 1862.
15 votes: 60% WOKE, 40% CHUD.
Why: Novel on poverty and injustice, sympathetic to the poor
In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert--Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.