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'All Kinds of Misérables': How Tiphaine Samoyault Reframes the Rewriting Debate
Tiphaine Samoyault, writer and essayist, publishes 'All Kinds of Misérables', a scholarly and personal essay on the rewriting of classics. Drawing on her own readings of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, she takes a measured stance on the polemics surrounding the erasure of passages now deemed unacceptable or the production of abridged versions. For Samoyault, a masterpiece is defined by its mutability: it transcends time and survives its transformations, as demonstrated by the multiple translations of Les Misérables. Le Temps reviewed this essay on July 23, 2026.