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kessler21 's review for:
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo
Barely 3 stars. I thought this book would never end.
First, this is not the story of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame I grew up on. Disney lied to us. haha.
A protagonist does not really exist in this story. Its a story full of selfish people looking out for their own interests. I think that is what Victor Hugo was trying to get across though. Hugo published this book 30 or so years after the end of the French Revolution. The Gothic architecture was being torn down and destroyed. Hugo spends half the story focusing on architecture and the difference of the buildings in his present day (1830s) to the time of the story (1480s) He was trying to bring awareness to the beauty and history that was being destroyed. His message caught on and preservation projects were started. This book is what brought Notre-Dame so much notoriety and why it is so famous and treasured today.
I liked the story but not the book, if that makes sense. This book was so disappointing to me after Les Miserables is one of my favorites books ever and I have enjoyed other classical French literature such as The Counte of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
First, this is not the story of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame I grew up on. Disney lied to us. haha.
A protagonist does not really exist in this story. Its a story full of selfish people looking out for their own interests. I think that is what Victor Hugo was trying to get across though. Hugo published this book 30 or so years after the end of the French Revolution. The Gothic architecture was being torn down and destroyed. Hugo spends half the story focusing on architecture and the difference of the buildings in his present day (1830s) to the time of the story (1480s) He was trying to bring awareness to the beauty and history that was being destroyed. His message caught on and preservation projects were started. This book is what brought Notre-Dame so much notoriety and why it is so famous and treasured today.
I liked the story but not the book, if that makes sense. This book was so disappointing to me after Les Miserables is one of my favorites books ever and I have enjoyed other classical French literature such as The Counte of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.