Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris: Proto-Sword-and-Sorcery?
What an immersive and surprising experience reading Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris proved to be! Countless references to alchemy, hermeticism, magic, witchcraft and sorcery — no dragons perhaps, but layer upon layer of dungeons. But perhaps most striking of all are Hugo’s detailed and fascinating descriptions of the late medieval Parisian underworld.
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