This is a romantic love tragedy, which tells the story of the bohemian girl Esmeralda on the way to exile in Paris, encountering the poor poet Gangova who was saved by pity, Claude Frollo, the vicar of Notre-Dame de Paris who can't love and has a twisted psychology, the aristocratic prince Phobis, and the kind-hearted but hideous bell tower eccentric Quasimodo, after the mad persecution of the vice-bishop, the superstitious prejudice of the Inquisition, and the torture to extract confessions, The story of the spirit of Furbis, who was finally hanged by the order of the supreme king of feudal rule.
After listening to this description, there should be no one who does not know that it is talking about the plot of Notre Dame de Paris, Hugo's most famous example of romanticism. This book is so classic that I read it once when I was in junior high school.
When I open the book again now, the memories of the past are no longer clear, only the ugly bell-ringer who is deeply in love with the beautiful heroine.
When I first read it, I was not deeply involved in the world, and many emotions could not be experienced, but now repeating this huge work, the evaluation of this book can only be described accurately by being deeply shocked, and the deepest impact is not in the book and the story, but in the author's voice hidden in the story.
This book perfectly interprets the tragic reality of romanticism through the images of four unique characters and their connected destinies, and Hugo uses his profound brushstrokes and fiery soul to send out infinite sorrows and cries to the deep world and society.
The romance of the story lies in the fact that the heroine is impeccable and flawless in her heart, figure, and attitude towards love and life, and it is not an exaggeration to say that she is an angel. The tragedy lies in the persecution of the heroine by religion, theocracy, and human nature, and in the tragic love that she loves Phobis deeply but is toyed with, and is indifferent to the beloved Quasimodo.
The author sets up each character very distinctly, the poor woman without children, the captain of the heart, the perverted vicar of love, the spoiled gambler, and the playwright and poet who can't afford to be born. Some people have handsome faces, but they have ugly hearts, and some people have terrible faces, but they are gentle in their hearts.
This version is a classic series of Houlang illustrations, translated by the famous translator Pan Lizhen, and selected hundreds of exquisite illustrations. Burgundy freshly rendered paper is gilded as the cover of the book, a vertical waist cover is added to the back cover, and a beautiful book ticket is also presented in the book.
The myth of beauty and ugliness, good and evil, played out in the solemn and solemn Notre-Dame Cathedral will move all who read it, and this noisy farce is inextricably linked with the social form of the time. But its ripples in the reader's mind will never recede.