A Book a Day: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Jun. 26th, 2020 03:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caitri Every day I'm posting an image of a book I like. I don't actually have a copy of this one (which I currently regret, especially given this cover art: wow!), and the copy I read lo many moons ago was a plain brown library buckram. But I recently rewatched the Disney version--which is still at the top of my list of favorite Disney animated movies, despite or maybe because of my inability to sing along--and I remember reading the book after, and quickly getting an addiction to Victor Hugo. Teen!me also bewildered my mother when I asked for a new, fat bio of Hugo for my birthday, which I ate up over summer vacation. He was a weird, problematic guy, but he could write, anyway. This book is filled with constant! drama! And good-seeming bad guys and evil-seeming good guys, and dramatic irony, and basically it's a lot like a shorter, dragonless, less rapey-version of Game of Thrones. Is good shit, y'all.
Fun fact: Hugo also wrote this novel to draw attention to Notre Dame's decaying architecture, with long essays on cathedral building peppered in between children exchanged at birth and stuff. Because of Hunchback, the church got a face-lift that included the weird-ass spire that was lost in last year's fire.
Fun fact: Hugo also wrote this novel to draw attention to Notre Dame's decaying architecture, with long essays on cathedral building peppered in between children exchanged at birth and stuff. Because of Hunchback, the church got a face-lift that included the weird-ass spire that was lost in last year's fire.
