| As the tools of recording human historical development, literature and architecture seems belong two completely different architects fields.But there also have inseparable relationships. With the help of architecture, literature describing the background, carrying out the plot and shaping characters. With the help of the literary description, architectural art is also being fully displayed. We could analyze literary works from the perspective of architectural art at sometimes even. The relationship between literature and architecture has always been there and it’s so close. The novel Notre Dame de Paris, written by French writer Victor Hugo, is a classic masterpiece of romanticism and is a masterpiece which makes the literature and architecture closely together. The description of architecture accounts as much as one-third of the novel content. With the superb writing skills and exquisite literary language, Hugo presents a colorful picture of medieval Paris for us. In this masterwork, Hugo gives the architecture the amazing vitality, he describes the inseparable relationship about architecture, literature, history, and religion.The architecture is the history written by stone, the literature is the history recorded by words. The architecture in the literature works helps the author to shape the character and to express the theme of the work. The author also uses the words to give the emotion and life to architecture. Analyzing the characters of the works and the theme from the angle of architecture helps us to further understand the deeper meaning of history, culture, religion, aesthetics in the work. The relationship between the two discipline deserves the future scholars to study more. Digging the deeper depth of meaning between the two disciplines, and in order to provide more perspective and space for today’s literature, as well as the research and development of Architectural Culture.The study is starting point from gothic cathedral and the church of Notre Dame de Paris, and is interpreting, researching and discussing from the perspective of literature and Cultural Studies. During the time of introduction to Hugo’s architectural aesthetics, illustrating the indissoluble bound about Hugo and the art of Architecture at the same time. The study is based on the description of architectural details in Notre Dame de Paris, and illustrates the emotional changing of Gothic architecture and it illustrates the relationship between the characters, architecture and literature of the three, digging the deep relationship between architecture and literature.The real literary meaning of Notre Dame de Paris is to show that the significance of architecture is not only the living space for people, but also reflects the cultural information of the local region, reflects the traditional custom, is behalf of the character of the city, relates to people’s ideology and the value orientation of people, and the formation of social culture. The literature and architecture are interweaving and infiltrating for each other,they have built a strong spiritual bastion, which is age-old and tenacious in human culture. The description of architectural in Notre Dame de Paris is a help for further understanding of Hugo’s Romanticism creation thought. |