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1、TheHunchbackofNotreDameHugo,Victor(Translator:IsabelFlorenceHapgood)Published:18311AboutHugo:Victor-MarieHugo(26February1802—22May1885)wasaFrenchpoet,novelist,playwright,essayist,visualartist,statesman,humanrightscampaigner,andperhapsthemostinfluentialexponentoftheRo-manti
2、cmovementinFrance.InFrance,Hugo'sliteraryreputationrestsonhispoeticanddramaticoutput.Amongmanyvolumesofpoetry,LesContemplationsandLaLégendedessièclesstandparticularlyhighincriticalesteem,andHugoissometimesidentifiedasthegreatestFrenchpoet.IntheEnglish-speakingworldhisbest-
3、knownworksareoftenthenovelsLesMisérablesandNotre-DamedeParis(sometimestranslatedintoEnglishasTheHunchbackofNotre-Dame).Thoughextremelycon-servativeinhisyouth,Hugomovedtothepoliticalleftasthedecadespassed;hebecameapassionatesupporterofrepublicanism,andhisworktouchesuponmost
4、ofthepoliticalandsocialissuesandartistictrendsofhistime.Source:Wikipedia2PREFACEAfewyearsago,whilevisitingor,rather,rummagingaboutNotre-Dame,theauthorofthisbookfound,inanobscurenookofoneofthetowers,thefollowingword,engravedbyhanduponthewall:—ANArKH.TheseGreekcapitals,black
5、withage,andquitedeeplygraveninthestone,withIknownotwhatsignspeculiartoGothiccaligraphyimprin-tedupontheirformsandupontheirattitudes,asthoughwiththepur-poseofrevealingthatithadbeenahandoftheMiddleAgeswhichhadinscribedthemthere,andespeciallythefatalandmelancholymean-ingconta
6、inedinthem,strucktheauthordeeply.Hequestionedhimself;hesoughttodivinewhocouldhavebeenthatsoulintormentwhichhadnotbeenwillingtoquitthisworldwithoutleavingthisstigmaofcrimeorunhappinessuponthebrowoftheancientchurch.Afterwards,thewallwaswhitewashedorscrapeddown,Iknownotwhich,
7、andtheinscriptiondisappeared.ForitisthusthatpeoplehavebeeninthehabitofproceedingwiththemarvellouschurchesoftheMiddleAgesforthelasttwohundredyears.Mutilationscometothemfromeveryquarter,fromwithinaswellasfromwithout.Thepriestwhitewashesthem,thearchdeaconscrapesthemdown;thent
8、hepopulacearrivesanddemolishesthem.Thus,withtheexceptionofthefragilememorywhichtheauthoro
