The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Great Literary Masterpieces 5

The anonymous hero of this novel is the cathedral itself. Notre-Dame is not just a setting but a character, a fabulous giant that pulls the city of Paris along with it.
The novel is a fresco of 15th-century Paris, but it is also a novel about impossible love, about the drama of loving but not being loved. And there are the unforgettable figures of Quasimodo and Esmeralda.
A novel of light and shadow, of the grotesque and the pathetic, it led Lamartine to consider Hugo the Shakespeare of the novel.