Capital Letters: Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus and the Death Penalty

Ève Morisi *11 offers a rigorous study of three literary greats who grappled with the brutality of capital punishment. In Capital Letters (Northwestern), she asserts that Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, and Albert Camus present complementary cases against the humanitarian definition of capital punishment that arose in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Her writing examines the ethical debates that inspired all three authors.