El Jorobado De Nuestra Señora

Escrito por Victor Hugo

Narrado por Carlos J. Vega

Nuestra Señora de París (Notre-Dame de Paris, en francés) es una novela gótica de Victor Hugo, escrita en 1831 y compuesta por once libros que se centra en la desdichada historia de Esmeralda, una gitana, y Quasimodo, un jorobado sordo, en el Parísdel siglo XV. Todos sus elementos —ambientación medieval, amores imposibles, personajes marginados, final dramático— hacen de la obra un modelo de los temas literarios del Romanticismo francés. Victor Hugo, tras separarse de su mujer Adèle, escribió la obra por encargo de un editor, llevándole aproximadamente 6 meses y agotándolo físicamente. Pero el esfuerzo valió la pena ya que fue bien valorada por los críticos y tuvo gran éxito entre los lectores, cosa que le supuso un alivio económico.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: YOYO USA
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 1 ene 2001
• ISBN: 9781611553161

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a French poet and novelist. Born in Besançon, Hugo was the son of a general who served in the Napoleonic army. Raised on the move, Hugo was taken with his family from one outpost to the next, eventually setting with his mother in Paris in 1803. In 1823, he published his first novel, launching a career that would earn him a reputation as a leading figure of French Romanticism. His Gothic novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) was a bestseller throughout Europe, inspiring the French government to restore the legendary cathedral to its former glory. During the reign of King Louis-Philippe, Hugo was elected to the National Assembly of the French Second Republic, where he spoke out against the death penalty and poverty while calling for public education and universal suffrage. Exiled during the rise of Napoleon III, Hugo lived in Guernsey from 1855 to 1870. During this time, he published his literary masterpiece Les Misérables (1862), a historical novel which has been adapted countless times for theater, film, and television. Towards the end of his life, he advocated for republicanism around Europe and across the globe, cementing his reputation as a defender of the people and earning a place at Paris’ Panthéon, where his remains were interred following his death from pneumonia. His final words, written on a note only days before his death, capture the depth of his belief in humanity: “To love is to act.”