The fever of Victor Hugo after the fire of Notre …

This is a curious consequence of the fire that devastated Notre-Dame Cathedral: the online sale of Notre Dame of Paris – in certain editions subtitled or directly renamed The Hunchback of Notre Dame-, making Victor Hugo again a best seller. The story published in 1831 by the French author, which recounts, among other things, the history of Quasimodo, is one of the many essential works inspiring the eight-year-old building. centuries. After the fire last Monday, the book is ranked first among the top sellers by Amazon in France; During the weekend, six different editions appeared in the Top 10 online sales site, in the first, second, fourth, sixth, seventh and ninth places. The fever not for Victor Hugo did not move to Argentina.

In Britain, meanwhile, the French author's novel ranked 27th among the best-selling clbadics, and another edition ranked 33rd. Notre Dame of Paris he is listed in number 20 of the list of bestsellers of "European literature", and other titles of Victor Hugo, such as his complete novels and Les Misérables, appear in the Top 50. An overview of various sites of selling books online in Argentina shows that the fever has not moved in the country: in last week's bestsellers, there is neither Notre Dame, nor the Hunchback … nor, strictly speaking, no other book by Victor Hugo.

In Our
Lady of paris, the author (died precisely in this city in 1883, his remains are in the Pantheon
from Paris) describes the cathedral as "the mother of all the churches …
at the head of one, the legs of the other, the
hips of another, something of everything. "The text has become a book of keys
French literature and served as a stimulus for its reconstruction in the mid-nineteenth century. Beyond the tens
of times that the cathedral is seen in different films, the book has been adapted
several times on the screen, including the successful animated version of Disney in 1996.