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

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St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-

TO Mrs. Saville, England

You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking.

I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight. Do you understand this feeling? This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advancing, gives me a foretaste of those icy climes. Inspirited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent and vivid. I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight. There, Margaret, the sun is forever visible, its broad disk just skirting the horizon and diffusing a perpetual splendour. There-for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators-there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe.

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.

In a dark laboratory shrouded in mystery and secrets, a young scientist defies the laws of nature and embarks on a perilous quest for immortality. Driven by ambition and haunted by a relentless curiosity, Victor Frankenstein hurls himself into a realm where life and death blur into a macabre dance.

Assembling body parts stolen from the grave, he stitches together a grotesque being, an abomination that awakens with a spark of electricity. But what he creates is far more than he bargained for-a creature with a mind as tormented as its disfigured form.

Frankenstein, a timeless tale of science and morality, explores the boundaries of human knowledge and the weighty consequences of playing god. As the creature grapples with its existence and yearns for acceptance, Frankenstein must confront the horrors he has unleashed upon the world.

From the icy peaks of the Swiss Alps to the mist-laden streets of 19th-century Europe, this Gothic masterpiece delves deep into the darkest corners of the human psyche. Mary Shelley's enduring classic delves into themes of love, loneliness, and the search for identity, challenging our understanding of what it means to be human.

With its atmospheric prose and haunting narrative, Frankenstein continues to captivate readers across generations. Dive into the depths of this chilling tale and discover the tragic consequences of tampering with life's eternal mysteries. Will Victor Frankenstein find redemption, or will his creation become the instrument of his ultimate downfall? The answers lie within the pages of this timeless masterpiece.

The opening scene of this tale took place in a little village on the southern coast of Cornwall. Treby (by that name we choose to designate a spot, whose true one, for several reasons, will not be given, ) was, indeed, rather a hamlet than a village, although, being at the sea-side, there were two or three houses which, by dint of green paint and chintz curtains, pretended to give the accommodation of "Apartments Furnished" to the few bathers who, having heard of its cheapness, seclusion, and beauty, now and then resorted thither from the neighbouring towns.

This part of Cornwall shares much of the peculiar and exquisite beauty which every Englishman knows adorns "the sweet shire of Devon." The hedges near Treby, like those round Dawlish and Torquay, are redolent with a thousand flowers: the neighbouring fields are prankt with all the colours of Flora, --its soft air, --the picturesque bay in which it stood, as it were, enshrined, --its red cliffs, and verdure reaching to the very verge of the tide, --all breathe the same festive and genial atmosphere. The cottages give the same promise of comfort, and are adorned by nature with more luxurious loveliness than the villas of the rich in a less happy climate.

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Frankenstein

Mary Shelley



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Frankenstein ou Le Prométhée moderne est un roman gothique publié en 1818 par la jeune Britannique Mary Shelley, maîtresse et future épouse du poète Shelley.

Le roman est le récit d'une tentative d'exploration polaire par Robert Walton. La majeure partie de ce récit est constituée par l'histoire de la vie de Victor Frankenstein que Walton a recueilli sur la banquise, histoire qui n'est elle même que le cadre d'une narration à Frankenstein par le « monstre », auquel il a donné vie, des tourments subis par celui-ci qui justifient sa haine envers son créateur. Source Wikipédia.



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Frankenstein è un romanzo straordinario sotto molti punti di vista. Pubblicato per la prima volta senza il nome dell'autore, fu scritto da una giovane donna di 19 anni. Da molti è considerato come l'ultimo vero romanzo gotico, da tutti come uno dei primi romanzi di fantascienza. La vicenda narrata è quella di uno "scienziato folle", Victor Frankenstein, che per ambizione smodata, crea un essere umano assemblando pezzi di cadaveri e infondendovi una scintilla di vita. Da qui avrà inizio una serie di sciagure. Sin dalla sua prima pubblicazione, quasi due secoli fa, la storia di Victor Frankenstein e della sua mostruosa  creatura ha incantato i lettori e continua ancora oggi a esercitare il suo fascino immutato sulle nuove generazioni. Romanzo carico di un'intensità allucinata, Frankenstein rappresenta una delle più suggestive creazioni della fantasia romantica.

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