The Hunchback of Notre-Dame(French:Notre-Dame de Paris,lit.'Our Lady of Paris', originally titledNotre-Dame de Paris. 1482) is aFrenchGothicnovelbyVictor Hugo, published in1831. It focuses on the unfortunate story ofQuasimodo, theRomanistreet dancerEsmeraldaand Quasimodo's guardian theArchdeaconC...
including Notre-Dame de Paris. In that sense, both monuments, the cathedral and the book, are joined by a shared history. His contemporary, the French historian Jules Michelet, wrote that Hugo had “marked [Notre-Dame cathedral] with such a lion’s claw that, from now o...
Gutenberg’s letters of lead are about to supersede Orpheus’s letters of stone. The book is about to kill the edifice. The invention of printing is the greatest event in history. It is the mother of revolution. It is the mode of expression of humanity which is totally renewed; it is ...