The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Victor Hugo
- First Published: 1831
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1482
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Poetry or poets, Paris, Obsession, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Middle Ages, Priests, Cathedrals, Gypsies, Sympathy
- Locales: Paris, France
Places Discussed
*Notre Dame Cathedral. Roman Catholic cathedral on Paris’s Ile de la Cite. The iconic presence of the cathedral dominates the novel, especially through the lives of Claude Frollo, the archdeacon of Notre Dame, and Quasimodo, the cathedral’s deaf bell-ringer. The forces that control the ultimate tragedy of the story arise from the hopeless love of these two men for Esmeralda, the gypsy woman who is herself besotted with the unfaithful soldier, Phoebus de Châteaupers. Frollo’s love for Esmeralda would not drive him to such madness, were he not restrained...
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