- 所属丛书系列
- Oxford World's Classics
书名: Notre-Dame de Paris (Oxford World's Classics)
作者: Victor Hugo (Author), Alban Krailsheimer (Translator)
出版社: Oxford University Press (December 2, 1999)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 019283701X
ISBN-13: 978-0192837011
Book Description
At the center of Hugo's classic novel are three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancer Esmeralda. She, meanwhile, is bewitched by a handsome, empty-headed officer, but by an unthinking act of kindness wins Quasimodo's selfless devotion. Behind the central figures moves a pageant of picturesque characters, including the underworld of beggars and petty criminals whose assault on the cathedral is one of the most spectacular set-pieces of Romantic literature.
Alban Kraisheimer's new translation offers a fresh approach to this monumental work by France's most celebrated Romantic authors.
Review
"Good text with excellent bio-bibliographical chronology. I shall be happy to recommend it. I do not teach a class in which it would be a textbook, but I may well use it for examples in translation studies scholarship." --Marilyn Gaddis Rose, Binghamton University
About the Author
Alban Krailsheimer has also translated Balzac's Pere Goriot and Flaubert's Three Tales for the World's Classics.
