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...
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...
Talk about being seduced by a classic. I was really not enjoying this book at first, but slowly it grew on me. Notre-Dame de Paris, or "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" only becomes exciting in the last third of the book or so, but the first few hundred pages are a long, slow build-up that demands your ...
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