Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris

[Anonymous No.22775789]

A novel overflowing with tragedy. From Frollo's destruction coming at the hand of the one he saved, to Esmeralda's love of freedom bringing her to imprisonment. Love and lust being the main catalyst of condemnation for some and damnnation for others. The characters being intertwined at such an early age also gives the novel a feeling of predestined fate and determinism, very much reminiscent of ancient Greek theater.

[Anonymous No.22776989]

Ahem, It would please me grately If we, the humble and erudite users of this image board, were to engage in discussion, about this 19th century french novel, see image related.

[Anonymous No.22776997]

When (((you))) burned the place down, that's when it really crystalized

[Anonymous No.22778300]

>>22775789
was frollo italian

[Anonymous No.22779407]

>>22778300
No, he is very much of french parents and a french nationality, why?

[Anonymous No.22779851]

>>22775789
The author's tangent about how Paris' Gothic architecture was slowly replaced and lost was my favorite part of the book and one of the most interesting passages I've read this year.

[Anonymous No.22779877]

>>22775789
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is more of a comedy than a tragedy.
>Frollo hides his deadbeat brother in a cabinet because his boss is visiting the church
>his brother starts eating food while he's hiding
>the boss is like "what's that noise?"
>it's "steamed hams."
>two old ladies bring a food donation to a hermit
>while they're dumping exposition they keep telling their little boy not to eat the food that's for the hermit
>a "now Homer, don't you eat this pie" tier joke
>Esmerelda's shotgun wedding to the playwright
>Phoebus' simps seething with jealousy over how he prefers Esmerelda over them
the ending is pretty sad, but there's hundreds of pages of comedy to get to it

[Anonymous No.22780023]

>>22779877
This is true, the entire scene with King Louis XI is pure comedy with him pretending not to hear the person whom he jailed for treason. The novel is very much a fantasy one as well, which is something people don't really mention. The way Hugo describes the truants and the whole Court of Miracles is almost something out of a Disney movie.

[Anonymous No.22781042]

>>22779877
I laughed out loud at the epilogue where Phoebus has to get married and the playwright finally gets paid a year late.

[Anonymous No.22782322]

>>22779877
Gringoire/clopin in the court of miracles chapter was hilarious too

[Anonymous No.22783092]

>''Alas, if the victory did not remain with me, the fault is God's, who did not give man a strength equal to that of the demon'' - Claude Frollo