Cathedral Of Our Lady Of Paris, a Symbol Of The Spiritual Life Of The French Nation. By Hugo

For none of the monumental buildings of medieval probably not include such a recognition, as the Cathedral of Our Lady of Paris, which is glorified in his novel by Victor Hugo. In the history of French culture is a long checklist of folk architecture and the wonderful writing the first third of the XIX century that merged together. Body of the church will always be reminded of the characters of Victor Hugo's novel-gypsy Esmeralda, poor deaf and ugly Quasimodo.Read more...
At the heart of the novel - the Cathedral of Our Lady of Paris, a symbol of the spiritual life of the French nation. It was built by hands of hundreds of unknown artists, foster roistering popular imagination. Description of the cathedral becomes a cause for inspirational prose poem about the French national architecture. Hugo captured a kind of amazing works of medieval art, unsurpassed, innovative, far from the ancient architecture. He fervently rises to its protection from damage and distortion. Creation of a national architecture - is not only the embodiment of people's talents; Gothic church, on the writer - is also a «rock medieval books», for their sculptures and bas-reliefs illiterate human read Holy Letter.

It is the cathedral becomes a haven for folk heroes Hugo, it is closely linked their fate, the people living around the cathedral, the one that is able to fight for their better life. However, the cathedral - a symbol of feudal oppression, darker prejudices, which are kept in captivity by the human soul. Not in the darkness under the arches of the cathedral, merging with a wonderful marble chimères, thunderstruck roar ringing in single living Quasimodo, «the soul of the Cathedral», who embodies the image of the Middle Ages. It contrasts starkly beautiful image of Esmeralda, who embodies the joy and beauty of earthly life, the harmony of body and soul, that is ideals of the Renaissance, which was to replace the Middle Ages. Tantsorka Esmeralda alive among the Parisian crowd, which believes its her sister, she is fully immersed in people's lives and gives a simple lyudu art, fun and sincerity. This novel by Victor Hugo that perekidal bridge from the past to the modern. The writer has spoken out against political reaction and social irregularities in his time. All product flash light up people's recovery, the revolutionary events, which was a contemporary of the author. This impact on the image to the people «Cathedral of Our Lady of Paris».

In the novel the author's understanding of the people - it is not just dark illiterate crowd, he had full creative force and will to fight for them - the future. He has not yet woken up, «it is not yet the time has come». But the storming of the cathedral of Paris lyudom, so vividly depicted in the novel - it is only a prelude to the storming of the Bastille in 1789 (not a coincidence, King Louis XI is in this castle), a prelude to the revolution that will destroy feodalism.

«When the spire of the ring the alarm when zagrohochut gun, when a terrible roar wall will fall, when the soldiers and the crowd rushed to one with a snarl on one, and then comes the time». With all the variety of paintings of traditional life in «Cathedral of Our Lady of Paris» Hugo not idealized the Middle Ages, and truthfully show the seamy side of the feudal past. However, his book is deeply poetic, it is soaked in a hot love for France, its history, its art, in which the writer is convinced, is the freedom-loving spirit of the French nation.