Name: Dracula (in Spanish)
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Author: Bram Stoker
ISBN: 9788497405935

Type

Physical Book

Author

Bram Stoker

Publisher

Castalia

Year

2014

Language

Spanish

Pages

640

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9788497405935

Edited in

España

Edition No.

1ª

Synopsis "Dracula (in Spanish)"

Jonathan Harker viaja a Transilvania para cerrar un negocio inmobiliario con un misterioso conde que acaba de comprar va rias propiedades en Londres; al llegar, en el Paso de Borgo un siniestro carruaje lo recoge para llevarlo, acunado por e l canto de los lobos, a un castillo en ruinas. Tal es el inq uietante principio de una novela magistral que alumbr uno de los personajes ms populares y poderosos de todos los tiempo s, pues si hay un mito literario que haya cobrado vida propi a, sin duda es el del conde Drcula, el arquetipo mismo del v ampiro. Publicada en 1897, y recibida como perteneciente al gnero gtico, sus repercusiones han desbordado con creces el mbito cerrado del gnero. As, esta novela sorprende por su so lidez y arquitectura: la ausencia del erudito narrador decim onnico, sustituido por el gnero epistolar, y la acumulacin d e materiales de primera mano confieren al relato una moderni dad narrativa inslita en este tipo de obras, al mismo tiempo que la lenta progresin en el desvelamiento del misterio cre a una atmsfera de suspense pocas veces igualada. Claramente, Bram Stoker (1847-1912) supo sintetizar en Drcula varias de las ms profundas pulsiones del ser humano .la vida, la muer te, la sexualidad. en sus ms diversas y ambiguas manifestaci ones .el bien y el mal, la luz y las tinieblas, la entrega n o deseada pero irresistible., para alumbrar este relato fasc inante que es ya un clsico indiscutible de la literatura de terror.'

Bram Stoker

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Abraham "Bram" Stoker (Clontarf; November 8, 1847-London; April 20, 1912) was an Irish novelist and writer, known for his novel Dracula

His early horror stories, such as "The Crystal Cup" (1872), were published by the London Society, and The Chain of Destiny in the Shamrock magazine. In 1876, while working as a civil servant, he wrote a textbook named The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland (1879), this book was used as a reference for a long time

Being a theater critic for the Dublin Evening Mail, co-owned by the famous Gothic novelist Sheridan Le Fanu, one of the most important of his time for stories like Carmilla, about a vampire, greatly influenced Stoker when writing Dracula. Stoker's critique of the play was high praise for the performance in Hamlet by actor Henry Irving, who hired him to be his personal secretary and manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London

While working for Irving, he was a literary critic for the Daily Telegraph and wrote several novels like The Snake's Pass (1890) and Dracula (1897) and, after Irving's death in 1905, The Lady of the Shroud (1909) and The Lair of the White Worm (1911)

His wife was the administrator of his literary estate, and she made known works such as what would be the introduction to Dracula, the short story Dracula's Guest

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