Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

Paperback, 220 pages

English language

Published May 15, 2022 by Union Square & Co..

ISBN:
978-1-4351-7144-2
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Dr. Victor Frankenstein never considers the consequences of his obsession. In his zeal to understand and harness the secret of life, he neglects his family and friends, isolates himself from the world, and ignores his own health. For years, he labors to create a new race of intelligent beings. He spends his nights scrounging human and animal body parts from graveyards, slaughterhouses, and hospital dissection rooms. By day he experiments in his secret laboratory, learning from his mistakes and perfecting the creature who, he believes, will worship him as a god. But this hubris is not his sin.

When he succeeds, Frankenstein is horrified by the ugly brutishness of the patchwork being he has brought to life. Rather than exult in his accomplishment, he runs from it, retreating to the comfort of long-neglected friends and family. Frankenstein has, indeed, created a monster not by animating dead flesh but by abandoning …

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Por capricho Victor Frankenstein teceu os fios da vida. O destino o conduziu por caminhos tortuosos, até este ponto, vaidades e acaso… Por capricho Victor Frankenstein esmagou a criatura sob o peso de seu desdém. Assim começa a tragédia do criador e da criatura. A figura de Frankenstein é marcada por um lamento constante, sua tragédia reside em sua incapacidade de agir até ser tarde demais. Seu pecado o persegue, ele é incapaz de confessá-lo ou dar cabo dele. Vemos um personagem ser consumido passivamente. Já a criatura, órfã de seu criador, vaga solitária como um animal pelos bosques enquanto desenvolve aos poucos seus gostos, experimenta pela primeira vez a fome e a comida, o frio e o calor, a solidão… e apenas isso. O monstro, como é chamado, isolado, ama platonicamente tudo o que é de mais humano. Negado em seus afetos, o ressentimento cresce, ele se vê como …

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