Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of lite. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new "man". But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him - even Frankenstein himself ! The monster is like an enormous baby who needs love. But nobody gives him love, and soon he learns to hate. And, because he is so strong, the next thing he learns is how to kill...

Frankenstein

Au mois de juin 1816, sur les rives du lac de Genève, Mary Shelley et ses amis cherchent à tromper l'ennui dans le chalet où la pluie les contraint à rester enfermés. Jeux de société, romans "terrifiants" à la mode, tout y passe, jusqu'à ce que Lord Byron leur suggère d'écrire, à leur tour, une "histoire de fantômes". Ainsi naquit Frankenstein, le récit d'un savant trop audacieux, incapable de maîtriser le monstre qu'il avait créé. Traduit dans des dizaines de langues, adapté plus de quarante fois au cinéma, ce roman écrit par une jeune fille de dix-neuf ans allait connaître un succès mondial. A l'instar de Don Juan et de Faust, le "hideux rejeton" de Mary Shelley s'est hissé au rang de mythe, donnant ainsi à la littérature d'épouvante ses lettres de noblesse.

Frankenstein - Ou le Prométhée moderne

Written by Mary Shelley (1797-1851), Frankenstein is the best-selling horror classic about an experiment that goes horribly wrong, and a monster who swears revenge on his creator. Swiss student Victor Frankenstein uncovers the secret to bringing life to what is lifeless, and in assembling body parts to create a monster, ultimately sets the stage for his own destruction and that of everything he loves when the monster is rejected by society. Penned as part of a competition between Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori to see who could write the best horror story, Frankenstein is resonant with themes of love, friendship, hubris, and fear. It presents the epic battle between man and monster, showing that man is not always capable of controlling that which he creates. Frankenstein was first published anonymously in London in 1818, reflecting English biases towards female authors, and Mary Shelley was not credited as the author of Frankenstein until the French edition was published in 1823. Frankenstein has had a lasting influence on literary tradition, opening the door to literary horror as a genre, and is widely recognized as the first work of science fiction. It has been adapted for film, television, and stage, as well as providing the basis for new works of literary fiction.

"Frankenstein" wird durch eine Kombination von Briefroman und klassischer Ich-Erzählung vermittelt. Viktor Frankenstein erzählt dem Leiter einer Forschungsexpedition, zugleich Eigner des Schiffes, das ihn in der Arktis rettet, seine Geschichte. Der Roman wird so zu einem Lehrstück, dass seine Erzählung auch eine Warnung an den Zuhörer und damit auch die Leser sein soll: Er warnt vor einer entgrenzten menschlichen Vernunft, die sich selbst zu Gott macht und sich anmaßt, lebendige Materie zu schaffen. Die Figur des Viktor Frankenstein ähnelt damit sowohl dem "literarischen" Faust als auch dem Prometheus aus der griechischen Mythologie.

Frankenstein - oder Der moderne Prometheus

In the flattest and least agreeable part of the county of Essex, about five miles from the sea, is situated a village or small town, which may be known in these pages by the name of Longfield. Longfield is distant eight miles from any market town, but the simple inhabitants, limiting their desires to their means of satisfying them, are scarcely aware of the kind of desert in which they are placed. Although only fifty miles from London, few among them have ever seen the metropolis. Some claim that distinction from having visited cousins in Lothbury and viewed the lions in the tower. There is a mansion belonging to a wealthy nobleman within four miles, never inhabited, except when a parliamentary election is going forward. No one of any pretension to consequence resided in this secluded nook, except the honourable Mrs. Elizabeth Fitzhenry; she ought to have been the shining star of the place, and she was only its better angel. Benevolent, gentle, and unassuming, this fair sprig of nobility had lived from youth to age in the abode of her forefathers, making a part of this busy world, only through the kindliness of her disposition, and her constant affection for one who was far away.

Lodore

Amori impossibili, vite prematuramente spezzate, affascinanti fuorilegge, fanciulle disperate, sogni divinatori, equivoci, riconoscimenti, vendette, e naturalmente matrimoni, nascite, vittorie. Ha avuto lei stessa una vita avventurosa come un romanzo, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, divenuta poi famosa come Mary Shelley, autrice del celeberrimo Frankenstein o il moderno Prometeo. Il successo di quest'opera straordinaria, composta a soli diciannove anni, ha forse per troppo tempo sovrastato la sua autrice; questa raccolta di racconti permette finalmente di conoscerne il mondo interiore, la vivace intelligenza, l'impressionante talento narrativo. Racconti - alcuni dei quali ambientati in Italia, dove la scrittrice visse per un periodo - apparsi su riviste dell'epoca, in cui si sviluppano vari temi a lei cari: classi sociali e rivoluzione, religione, famiglia, identità personale e nazionale, attraverso storie dalle inconfondibili ambientazioni gotiche e romantiche in cui a farla da padrone è il destino, talvolta crudele, talvolta generoso, ma sempre implacabile.

La tomba senza nome - e altri racconti inediti

Passionné par les sciences occultes, Victor Frankenstein est persuadé qu'il peut donner la vie. Dans la solitude de son laboratoire, un soir d'orage, son rêve devient réalité... et tourne au cauchemar. Il vient de créer un être monstrueux. Victor fuit, épouvanté. Mais il est trop tard : la créature, rejetée de tous, prépare déjà sa vengeance... La subtile lecture de François Hatt vient plonger l'auditeur au coeur de ce chef-d'oeuvre intemporel, à la croisée de l'horrifique et du philosophique. Ce mythe du Prométhée moderne, écrit en trois jours par la jeune Mary Shelley, a bouleversé la littérature, et il continue d'exalter l'imagination. Lola CAUL-FUTY FREMEAUX DIRECTION ARTISTIQUE : MYRIAM GILLES 8 H 10 MIN

After a long series of civil dissension--after many battles, whose issue involved the fate of thousands--after the destruction of nearly all the English nobility in the contest between the two Roses, the decisive battle of Bosworth Field was fought on the 22d of August, 1415, whose result was to entwine, as it was called, the white and red symbols of rivalship, and to restore peace to this unhappy country.

The day had been sunny and warm: as the evening closed in a west wind rose, bringing along troops of fleecy clouds, golden at sunset, and then dun and grey, veiling with pervious network the many stars. Three horsemen at this hour passed through the open country between Hinckley and Welford in Leicestershire. It was broad day when they descended from the elevation on which the former stands, and the villagers crowded to gaze upon the fugitives, and to guess, from the ensigns they bore, to which party they belonged, while the warders from the near castle hastened out to stop them, thus to curry favour with the conqueror; a design wholly baffled.

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