Cause for international celebration―the most important and complete edition of Dracula in decades.
In his first work since his best-selling The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S. Klinger returns with this spectacular, lavishly illustrated homage to Bram Stoker's Dracula. With a daring conceit, Klinger accepts Stoker's contention that the Dracula tale is based on historical fact. Traveling through two hundred years of popular culture and myth as well as graveyards and the wilds of Transylvania, Klinger's notes illuminate every aspect of this haunting narrative (including a detailed examination of the original typescript of Dracula, with its shockingly different ending, previously unavailable to scholars). Klinger investigates the many subtexts of the original narrative―from masochistic, necrophilic, homoerotic, "dentophilic," and even heterosexual implications of the story to its political, economic, feminist, psychological, and historical threads. Employing the superb literary detective skills for which he has become famous, Klinger mines this 1897 classic for nuggets that will surprise even the most die-hard Dracula fans and introduce the vampire-prince to a new generation of readers.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393064506
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Fecha de lanzamiento: 17/10/2008
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Bram Stoker y Leslie S. Klinger
Fue un novelista y crítico teatral irlandés, universalmente por su obra gótica Drácula (1897), que durante décadas ha influido en generaciones de autores de terror. Durante su vida trabajó como administrador del famoso actor Henry Irving en el Lyceum Theatre de Londres y escribió otros relatos de terror y fantasía. Su legado permanece vivo, influyendo en novelas, cine y todo tipo de adaptaciones del mito vampírico.