Dracula

Stoker, Bram

ISBN 10: 2266243241 ISBN 13: 9782266243247

Publisher: POCKET, 2013

Synopsis

Répondant à l'invitation du comte Dracula qui prépare son prochain voyage en Angleterre, Jonathan Harker découvre à son arrivée dans les Carpates un pays mystérieux. Un pays aux forêts ténébreuses et aux montagnes menaçantes. Un pays peuplé de loups dont les habitants se signent au nom de Dracula. Malgré la bienveillance de son hôte, le jeune clerc ne peut qu'éprouver une angoisse grandissante. Ce comte, qui contrôle son courrier et verrouille les portes de son château, ne se reflète pas dans les miroirs et se déplace sur les murs en défiant les lois de l'apesanteur... Jonathan Harker doit se rendre à la terrifiante évidence : il est prisonnier d'un homme qui n'est pas un homme. Et qui partira bientôt hanter les nuits de Londres...

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Review

Dracula is one of the few horror books to be honored by inclusion in the Norton Critical Edition series. (The others are Frankenstein, The Turn of the Screw, Heart of Darkness, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Metamorphosis.) This 100th-anniversary edition includes not only the complete authoritative text of the novel with illuminating footnotes, but also four contextual essays, five reviews from the time of publication, five articles on dramatic and film variations, and seven selections from literary and academic criticism. Nina Auerbach of the University of Pennsylvania (author of Our Vampires, Ourselves) and horror scholar David J. Skal (author of Hollywood Gothic, The Monster Show, and Screams of Reason) are the editors of the volume. Especially fascinating are excerpts from materials that Bram Stoker consulted in his research for the book, and his working papers over the several years he was composing it. The selection of criticism includes essays on how Dracula deals with female sexuality, gender inversion, homoerotic elements, and Victorian fears of "reverse colonization" by politically turbulent Transylvania.

Book Description

While serving as actor Henry Irving's business manager at the Lyceum Theatre in London, Bram Stoker (1847-1912) also pursued his literary interests. In this Gothic horror novel of 1897, which brought him international fame, he presents the chilling vampire Count Dracula, modelled in part on Irving's powerful personality.

About this edition

• Publisher: POCKET
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 2266243241
• ISBN 13: 9782266243247
• Binding: Pocket Book
• Language: French
• Number of pages: 576