by Victor Hugo This Classic was originally written in French and I've found that the translation does make a difference. I have a paperback copy from Penguin, translated by John Sturrock and my first impression was that the writing was very poetic, but I got the free Kindle version from Gutenberg ...
A strange novel. It is a kind of mix of a 19th century french sociological novel and a fairytale. It also is written in Hugo's leisurely style, where he takes as long as humanly possible to get from A to B. So it is a kind of cross between Zola and Perrault, told in the slowest possible way and p...
Spoiler: The Hunchback of Notre Dame has one of the greatest endings in literary history. It sneaks up on you, as the very last line, and manages to be both creepy and satisfying as an ending. I have to start by complimenting the language. (This is also addressed to the translator.) Hugo's lang...
Stvarno postoji vreme za svaku knjigu. Samo knjiga u pravo vreme procitana moze da ti pomogne da sagledas i sebe i svet. Izgleda da sam ovu procitala kad treba.
I listened to this, translation by Catherine Liu, narrated by George Guidall. It was amazing! I honestly don't think I could have shouldered through the book - all of those place names and so forth in French throw me, and make it hard for me to remember what's going on. However, this narrator is...
Everything in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a fascinating juxtaposition of the grotesque and the sublime – the speech, the characters, the setting. I felt like the whole point of the story was to show that architecture was the only good thing that came from the Middle Ages so for heaven’s sake, don...
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