Synopses & Reviews
Este libro presenta "Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo", con un indice dinámico y detallado. Es una obra literaria de Mary Shelley, publicada en 1818. La novela narra la historia de Víctor Frankenstein, un joven suizo, estudiante de medicina en Ingolstadt, obsesionado por conocer "los secretos del cielo y la tierra". En su afán por desentrañar "la misteriosa alma del hombre", Víctor crea un cuerpo a partir de la unión de distintas partes de cadáveres diseccionados. El experimento concluye con éxito cuando Frankenstein, rodeado de sus instrumentos, infunde una chispa de vida al monstruoso cuerpo.
English Description
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is the original 1818 'Uncensored' Edition of Frankenstein as first published anonymously in 1818. This original version is much more true to the spirit of the author's original intentions than the heavily revised 1831 edition, edited by Shelley, in part, because of pressure to make the story more conservative. Many scholars prefer the 1818 text to the more common 1831 edition.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by Mary Shelley about a creature produced by an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was nineteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823.
Shelley had travelled in the region of Geneva, where much of the story takes place, and the topics of galvanism and other similar occult ideas were themes of conversation among her companions, particularly her future husband, Percy Shelley. The storyline emerged from a dream. Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, and John Polidori decided to have a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for weeks about what her possible storyline could be, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made. She then wrote Frankenstein.
Synopsis
Metafora sobre la vida, la libertad y el amor, Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo es una maravillosa fabula con todos los ingredientes de los grandes mitos. En el verano del 1816, Mary Shelley dio vida a quien seria su personaje mas famoso, el doctor Frankenstein. La historia es bien conocida: un cientifico decide crear una criatura con vida propia a la que luego rechaza. Resena: El mito de Frankenstein proyecta su espectacular sombra sobre las inmensas bibliotecas de la literatura y el cine occidental. Alberto Manguel ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein's terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. Considering the novel's enduring success, it is remarkable that it began merely as a whim of Lord Byron's. "We will each write a story," Byron announced to his next-door neighbors, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley. The friends were summering on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, Shelley still unknown as a poet and Byron writing the third canto of Childe Harold. When continued rains kept them confined indoors, all agreed to Byron's proposal.The illustrious poets failed to complete their ghost stories, but Mary Shelley rose supremely to the challenge. With Frankenstein, she succeeded admirably in the task she set for herself: to create a story that, in her own words, "would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror -- one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart."
Synopsis
Nominada por los estadounidenses como una de las 100 mejores novelas en la serie de PBS The Great American Read. El mito de Frankenstein proyecta su espectacular sombra so-
bre las inmensas bibliotecas de la literatura y el cine occidental.
Alberto Manguel
En 1816, Mary Shelley dio vida al que ser a su personaje m s famoso, el doctor Victor Frankenstein. La historia es bien conocida: un cient fico consigue crear una criatura a la que luego rechaza. Met fora sobre la vida, la libertad y el amor, Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo es una maravillosa f bula con todos los ingredientes de los grandes mitos.
La presente edici n se abre con una l cida introducci n de Alberto Manguel, titulada La novia de Frankenstein , en la que el afamado escritor y cr tico analiza el mito del monstruo y su influencia en la cultura contempor nea.
Cuando esos m sculos y esas articulaciones adquirieron la facultad de moverse, aquel ser se convirti en algo tan indescriptible que ni siquiera Dante habr a sido capaz de concebir nada igual.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein's terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. Considering the novel's enduring success, it is remarkable that it began merely as a whim of Lord Byron's. "We will each write a story," Byron announced to his next-door neighbors, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley. The friends were summering on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, Shelley still unknown as a poet and Byron writing the third canto of Childe Harold. When continued rains kept them confined indoors, all agreed to Byron's proposal.The illustrious poets failed to complete their ghost stories, but Mary Shelley rose supremely to the challenge. With Frankenstein, she succeeded admirably in the task she set for herself: to create a story that, in her own words, "would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror -- one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart."
Synopsis
Nominada por los estadounidenses como una de las 100 mejores novelas en la serie de PBS The Great American Read. El libro que ha inspirado una adaptaci n pr ximamente en cines, dirigdo por Guillermo del Torro.
«El mito de Frankenstein proyecta su espectacular sombra so-
bre las inmensas bibliotecas de la literatura y el cine occidental.
--Alberto Manguel
En 1816, Mary Shelley dio vida al que ser a su personaje m s famoso, el doctor Victor Frankenstein. La historia es bien conocida: un cient fico consigue crear una criatura a la que luego rechaza. Met fora sobre la vida, la libertad y el amor, Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo es una maravillosa f bula con todos los ingredientes de los grandes mitos.
La presente edici n se abre con una l cida introducci n de Alberto Manguel, titulada «La novia de Frankenstein , en la que el afamado escritor y cr tico analiza el mito del monstruo y su influencia en la cultura contempor nea.
«Cuando esos m sculos y esas articulaciones adquirieron la facultad de moverse, aquel ser se convirti en algo tan indescriptible que ni siquiera Dante habr a sido capaz de concebir nada igual.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
The book that inspired the upcoming adapted film, directed by Guillermo del Torro.
Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein's terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. Considering the novel's enduring success, it is remarkable that it began merely as a whim of Lord Byron's. "We will each write a story," Byron announced to his next-door neighbors, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley. The friends were summering on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, Shelley still unknown as a poet and Byron writing the third canto of Childe Harold. When continued rains kept them confined indoors, all agreed to Byron's proposal.The illustrious poets failed to complete their ghost stories, but Mary Shelley rose supremely to the challenge. With Frankenstein, she succeeded admirably in the task she set for herself: to create a story that, in her own words, "would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror -- one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart."