IDENTITY
Notre-Dame de Paris
Literature
Work Summary
A historical novel set in fifteenth-century Paris around the cathedral of Notre-Dame. The intertwined fates of Esmeralda, Quasimodo, Claude Frollo and Phoebus allow Hugo to combine medieval urban life, architecture, social exclusion, desire and fatal obsession.
Evidence Summary
He identifies Thijs Maris with Quasimodo and develops a sustained comparison between Hugo's character and the artist.
Direct literature–artist comparison based on rereading.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Victor Hugo
Work
Notre-Dame de Paris
Years / Period
20–21 Feb 1883
Van Gogh Relation
Reread, Compared / Connected
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
20–21 Feb 1883 — Letter 318
Reread · Reread / compared with artist
Van Gogh says he had just read Notre-Dame again, having first read it more than ten years earlier.
Response: He identifies Thijs Maris with Quasimodo and develops a sustained comparison between Hugo's character and the artist.
Connection: Direct literature–artist comparison based on rereading.
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