Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame (Graphic Novel)

The author of this story is the most emblematic of all French writers, a humanist and politician, a realist and exile: Victor Hugo was a multifaceted man, and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" is perhaps his most versatile work. The epic plunges us into Paris in the year 1482, amidst the unrestrained hustle and bustle of the Epiphany celebrations around the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, where a colorful array of characters illustrates the rise and fall of the Middle Ages. The young poet Gringoire, the deacon Frollo, the beautiful Esmeralda, and of course the hunchbacked Quasimodo encounter each other and us there. Hugo tells of love and hate, envy, heroism, intrigue, and self-sacrifice - in short, of everything that is human. Who could take on this material better than Georges Bess? The undisputed master of literary comic adaptation takes Hugo's work with effortless mastery and presents a graphic novel that is as splendid as Notre-Dame itself, following "Dracula" and "Frankenstein.".