When I get back from my holiday, I may treat myself to
this essay (though it is in German). The contents (with comparisons to Byron's Manfred and Goethe's Faust) seem sound. I would go further: he's proto-Dostoevskian. It's horribly unfortunate that the English-language unauthorised 'popular' retitling of Notre Dame de Paris gives a distorted
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