Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo, Grant, John · first published 1995
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I read The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables by Victor Hugo and I loved both of them, can recommend. Seveneves is an amazing book, just make sure you skip the last part. If you are into history I can recommend The last days…
on “Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?” ↗>The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Amazing books.... +100
on “Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?” ↗…would effectively hamper creation. Derivative works are authored all the time. Most of what Disney ever produced is derived from popular classics from the 18th / 19th centuries (I remember that in "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame", the original author, Victor Hugo, isn't even credited). I think it's wrong to frame the debate as "copyright versus no copyright at all"; it would be more useful to discuss copyright length. But what…
on “It Is Time To Stop Pretending To Endorse The Copyright Monopoly” ↗I certainly don't, at least not in the way that modern society seems to be pushing for it. A year or two ago a high school was putting on a production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and there was a loud minority of students complaining because a white girl was cast as Esmeralda. In the original book, Esmeralda is ethnically French, but Gypsies steal her as an infant and replace…
on “Who cares about diversity?” ↗It's a cute thought, and a good point. But the author is exclusively relying on "English major novels" for making this point (even though they ignore things like the very cool long chapters in Hunchback of Notre Dame that are about the Paris sewer system). For many of us on this website, we'd probably think of Neal Stephenson, who might have long digressions about cryptographic schemes, or Lagrange points, or whatever…
on “Your Novel Should Be More Like Moby-Dick” ↗I'm guessing it's because of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", which if I recall correctly, Victor Hugo wrote to (successfully) stimulate desire to repair/restore the cathedral around 1800. For me, personally, I think that Gothic architecture is the height of…
on “Notre Dame Cathedral reopens” ↗> There’s no “done, so we don’t need money any more” Supposedly this happened to Paris' Notre Dame for many years until Victor Hugo published The Hunchback of Notre-Dame which re-ignited it in the general public's imagination. * http://archive.is/https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/4/15/1831... * https://casdinteret.com/2020/05/how-victor-hugo-saved-notre-...
on “The Sagrada Família takes its final shape” ↗