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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo

The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Style 1 key example

Key Examples in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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Explanation and Analysis:

Stylistically, the novel’s eclectic interests find themselves fittingly reflected in its elaborate prose and varied chapters. Split across 11 books, some chapters read like sprawling historical treatises about architecture and others cover hardly more than a child eating cake. Hugo criticizes the modern tastes that erode the beauty of buildings at one point, only to narrate Phoebus’s sexual exploits at the very next. Shifting and drifting, The Hunchback of Notre Dame puts up a dizzying display of topics.