巴黎圣母院英文读书报告.doc

巴黎圣母院英文读书报告


Book Report

1, The information of the book:
Notre-Dame de Paris, published by YILI PEOPLE’S PRESS in 2001, written by Victor Hugo in 1831.
2, The introduction of the author:
Victor Hugo (born May 22, 1885 and died on February 26, 1802) is a poet, novelist, and dramatist and is the representative of French romantic writers.
When Hugo was 9 years old, he began to write poetry. When he was 15 years old, the joy of learning written by him won the French Academy Award degree. At the age of 20, he published books of poetry, Songs and Carols. In 1827, Victor Hugo published the script Cromwell. Although the script failed to perform, but it was considered as a landmark document into literary history and had an effect on French romanticism preamble. 1830, Hugo’s script Hernani was put on in Grand Theater. From then on, romantic established a dominant position in French literary circles. In July 1830, France had \Revolution\Hugo warmly praised the revolution and wrote poems mourning those who died in the revolution. In 1831 Victor Hugo wrote Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the most romantic novels. However, Hugo became a republican. And then he suffered persecution and lived abroad. During this period of time, he wrote les Contemplations, les Miserables and L’Homme qui Rit. It was not until 1870 that Victor Hugo went back to Paris. In 1885, he died in Paris. In order to memorize him, he was laid to rest in le Pantheon.
Though he is regarded in France as one of that country’s greatest poets, he is famous for such novels as Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) and Les Miserables (1862). He is the leader of 19th century romantic literature movement, a representative of humanitarian and is also called as “Shakespeare of France”.

3, The main content of this book:
《Notre-Dame de Paris》was written in 1831. The story begins
during the Renaissance in 1482, the day of the Festival of Fools in Paris. All the people were immerged in the celebration of April Fo