Notre Dame de Paris - World Literary Classics Collection (Complete Translation)

Author: (France) Victor Hugo
Translator: An Shao Kang
France/France
Publisher:
Publishing Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book is Hugo's , also a large-scale romantic novel. In the novel, Hugo, with his captivating and eloquent writing, describes the entanglement, conflict, 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. The book provides a brilliant commentary on Notre-Dame Cathedral and Paris, fully showcasing the author's romantic aesthetic view. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame artfully recreates the historical reality of France under King Louis XI more than four hundred years ago, depicting how the court and the church colluded to oppress the people and how the people bravely fought against these two forces. Set in 1482 France, the novel follows the relationship between the Gypsy girl Esmeralda and the young, handsome captain of the guard, the hypocritical bishop, and the deformed, ugly bell ringer, passionately praising the noble humanity of the Gypsy girl and the bell ringer while severely condemning the hypocrisy and debasement of the captain and the bishop. 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.