Ghantaaraavam by Victor Hugo in telugu by soorampudi seetharam

Depicting 1830s Paris amidst fast changing political developments, Victor Hugo, in this novel, unravels French culture and literature. The story centres on Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral, and his unrequited love for the beautiful dancer La Esmeralda. The novel has been described as a key text in French literature.

Victor Hugo has unmatched standing in French literary architecture as a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, letters public and private, and dramas in verse and prose.

Soorampudi Seetharam worked as an editor and translated several seminal novels from both Bengali and English into Telugu