Les Mis: After-Effect

"All the evil of goodness"

Hello readers,

This week’s recap covers just the five short chapters of “After-Effect,” but they’re plenty emotionally dense. Hugo takes the moral climax of the Champmathieu affair and immediately shows us its consequences. Valjean returns from Arras and everything begins collapsing nearly at once: Fantine’s health (and hope), Javert’s civility, and Made…