首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Clues suggesting that Quasimodo, the tragic hero of Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, is based on a historical fi
Clues suggesting that Quasimodo, the tragic hero of Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, is based on a historical fi
admin
2020-02-09
30
问题
Clues suggesting that Quasimodo, the tragic hero of Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, is based on a historical figure have been uncovered in the memoirs of Henry Sibson, a 19th-century British sculptor who was employed at the cathedral at around the time the book was written and who described a hunchbacked (驼背的) stonemason also working there.
The documents were acquired by the Tate Archive in 1999 after they were discovered in the attic of a house in Cornwall. However, the references to a "hunchbacked sculptor" working at Notre Dame were just discovered, as the memoirs were catalogued ahead of the archive’s 40th anniversary this year.
The seven-volume memoirs documented Sibson’s time in Paris during the 1820s, when he was employed by contractors to work on repairs to Notre Dame Cathedral. In the course of work, he met with Trajan, a carver under the government sculptor whose name he forgot, all that he knew was that he was humpbacked and he did not like to mix with carvers. In a later entry, Sibson again mentioned the sculptor, this time recalling his name as "Mon. Le Bossu". Le Bossu is French for "the hunchback".
Adrian Glew, the Tate archivist, who made the discovery, said: "When I saw the references to the humpbacked sculptor at Notre Dame, and saw that the dates matched the time of Hugo’s interest in the Cathedral, the hairs on the back of my neck rose and I thought I should look into it."
Hugo began writing The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1828 and the book was published three years later. He had a strong interest in the restoration of the Cathedral, with architecture features as a major theme in the book. Hugo publicly opposed the original neoclassical (新古典主义的) scheme for Notre Dame’s restoration led by the architect Etienne-Hippolyte Godde—the same scheme which Sibson describes Le Bossu and Trajan working on—favoring a more Gothic style for the cathedral. The publication of The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1831, which made Hugo one of France’s most acclaimed authors, was widely credited with prompting the Gothic restoration of the Cathedral in 1844, designed by the architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, which Hugo had championed.
Professor Sean Hand, the head of the Department of French Studies at the University of Warwick, and an expert on Hugo, said: "It is a fascinating discovery. Many scholars have tried to link Quasimodo’s deformities with certain medical conditions, but I have never seen any reference to a historical character that he may have been based upon. It sounds entirely plausible, and if Hugo was indeed inspired by this deformed stonemason at Notre Dame, it further renews our appreciation of his amazing imaginative powers to take details from real life and weave them into magical literature."
What made Adrian Glew look into the memoirs?
选项
A、The appearance of the carver Trajan.
B、The restoration of Notre Dame.
C、The mention of working with government sculptors.
D、The same dates as the time of Hugo’s interest in Notre Dame.
答案
D
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/W4IFFFFM
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
Theideaofusingyourdishwashertocookamealhasbeenaroundsincethe’80s.It’sbeenusedtocook【C1】______mainlyfish.Th
Ablindbabyisdoublyhandicapped.Notonlyisitunabletosee,butbecauseitcannotreceivethevisualstimulusfromitsenv
Smokersinthe"landofthefree"arefindingthemselvesincreasinglylessfreetopursuetheirhabit.NewYorkCityofficialsa
TradingModernistforMcmansion[A]In1949W.ClintonBackusandhiswifehireda43-year-olddesignernamedGretaMagnusson
OfthemanyfactorsthatcontributetopoorperformanceonstandardizedtestsliketheSAT,nervesand【C1】______,surprisingly,
Anybrainexerciseisbetterthanbeingatotalmentalcouchpotato.Buttheactivitieswiththemost【C1】______arethosethatr
A、Withathesisstatement.B、Withalistofreferences.C、Withasummaryoftheconference.D、Withaconclusionofthepaper.A这
A)Reduce,reuse,andrecycle.RecyclinghasbecomeapartofAmericanlife.Italsoisanimportantpartofthewaste-processin
Inthissection,youaregoingtoreadapassagewithtenstatementsattachedtoit.Eachstatementcontainsinformationgiveni
Inthissection,youaregoingtoreadapassagewithtenstatementsattachedtoit.Eachstatementcontainsinformationgiveni
随机试题
已知一棵二叉树结点的先根序列为ABDGCFK,中根序列为DGBAFCK,则结点的后根序列为()
我国《票据法》规定的票据丧失的救济方法有________、________、_________。
男性,32岁。乏力伴皮肤反复出现紫癜3个月。既往体健。查体:巩膜无黄染,胸骨无压痛,肝脾肋下未触及。化验血Hb80g/L,RBC2.7×1012/L,WBC3.1×109/L,分类中性粒细胞38%,淋巴细胞60%,单核细胞2%,P1t28×109/L
在颈椎病的诊断中,以下哪一条是可靠的依据从体格检查中可以发现受累的神经根是
治疗系统性红斑狼疮气血两亏证,应首选的方剂是
在银行组织构架的内部管理上,也将银行机构分为()和利润中心两类,其中前者涵盖了管理部门、运作中心、培训机构等机构,而后者包括独立核算的分支机构、产品线和子公司等。
一、注意事项本题本由给定资料与申论要求两部分构成。二、给定资料1.2010年1月12日,谷歌高级副总裁、首席法律顾问大卫·多姆德在谷歌官方博客上发表计划退出中国的声明,该声明称谷歌因不想再对搜索结果进行过滤,加之Gmail服务器遭受到攻
甲、乙两船分别在一条河的A,B两地同时相向而行,甲顺流而下,乙逆流而上。相遇时,甲乙两船行了相等的航程,相遇后继续前进,甲到达B地、乙到达A地后,都立即按原来路线返航,两船第二次相遇时,甲船比乙船少行1000米。如果从第一次相遇到第二次相遇的时间相隔为1小
根据刑法规定,对于连续犯追诉期限的起算,是从()。
设有两条抛物线y=nx2+和y=(n+1)x2+,记他们交点的横坐标的绝对值为an.求这两条抛物线所围成的平面图形的面积Sn.
最新回复
(
0
)