Notre Dame de Paris

Author: (French) Victor Hugo
Translator: Li Yumin
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a long novel and a major work of Romanticism by Hugo. In the novel, Hugo uses his captivating and vivid prose to depict the entanglements, conflicts, and destruction of the fates of several main characters, such as Esmeralda, Quasimodo, and Frollo. It tells a legendary tragic story set in 15th-century Paris, France, artfully recreating the historical reality of the reign of King Louis XI of France. The novel embodies Hugo's artistic principle of "contrast between beauty and ugliness." Its publication broke the shackles of pseudo-classicism, marking the complete victory of Romanticism. It is one of the recommended essential foreign literature books by 14 renowned Chinese professors, including Ji Xianlin. It is also one of the top 10 recommended foreign literary masterpieces for university students by the academician Yu Ruqin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.