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More commonly known as "The Hunchback of
Notre-Dame", Victor Hugo's Romantic novel of dark
passions and unrequited love, "Notre-Dame
de Paris", is...
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More commonly known as "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame", Victor Hugo's
Romantic novel of dark passions and unrequited love, "Notre-Dame de
Paris", is translated with an introduction by John Sturrock in
"Penguin Classics". In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame
Cathedral lives Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer. Mocked and
shunned for his appearance, he is pitied only by Esmerelda, a
beautiful gypsy dancer to whom he becomes completely devoted.
Esmerelda, however, has also attracted the attention of the
sinister archdeacon Claude Frollo, and when she rejects his
lecherous approaches, Frollo hatches a plot to destroy her, that
only Quasimodo can prevent. Victor Hugo's sensational, evocative
novel brings life to the medieval Paris he loved, and mourns its
passing in one of the greatest historical romances of the
nineteenth century. John Sturrock's clear, contemporary translation
is accompanied by an introduction discussing it as a passionate
novel of ideas, written in defence of Gothic architecture and of a
burgeoning democracy, and demonstrating that an ugly exterior can
conceal moral beauty. This revised edition also includes further
reading and a chronology of Hugo's life.Victor Hugo (1802-85) was a
forceful and prolific writer. He wrote volumes of criticism,
Romantic costume dramas, lyrical and satirical verse and political
journalism but is best remembered for his novels, especially
"Notre-Dame de Paris" (1831) and "Les Miserables" (1862) which was
adapted into one of the most successful musicals of all time.
Though exiled to the Channel Islands by Napoleon III, Hugo returned
to Paris in 1870 and remained a great public figure until his
death: his body lay in state under the Arc de Triomphe, and he was
later buried in the Pantheon. If you enjoyed "Notre-Dame de Paris",
you might like Gaston Leroux's "The Phantom of the Opera". "A great
writer - inventive, witty, sly, innovatory". (A. S. Byatt, author
of Possession).
