Dracula

Name: Dracula
Rating: 7.5 (5721 reviews)
Author: /author/Bram_Stoker_(Dracula)/author/Jarkko_Laine_(Dracula)

Novel, Gothic fiction by Bram Stoker, Jarkko Laine

Blurb

Dracula est un roman épistolaire de l'écrivain irlandais Bram Stoker publié en 1897. Il raconte l'histoire du Comte Dracula, un vampire, c'est-à-dire un être immortel qui se repaît du sang des vivants et les transforme à leur tour en vampires.
La complexité du personnage de Dracula renouvelée par des thèmes modernes chers à la psychanalyse comme l'association d'Éros et de Thanatos — du désir sexuel et de la mort — ou le questionnement des limites en feront un mythe moderne que le cinéma contribuera à amplifier. Certaines adaptations, comme Nosferatu le vampire de F.W. Murnau, Dracula de Tod Browning, Le Cauchemar de Dracula de Terence Fisher, Nosferatu, fantôme de la nuit de Werner Herzog ou Dracula de Francis Ford Coppola sont devenues des classiques du cinéma.

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J-c.g.vannier

I understand why this book influenced our culture and how it modeled our imagination but ready it was so boring... The first 15 are quite interesting and intriguing but the next 300 pages are conventional, uninteresting, most of it could fit in 20 or 30 pages. Not to mention the banalities and repetitive situation, the characters are tight to their functions, functions that the author teaches you when presenting each character and that you have to believe because no action will prove that indeed, they are worth of it. Finally, some situation are quite odd. Why on earth would those 3 pretender work together like if they were best friends? Besides, the American bring nothing to the story. Really.

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Captainjemima

I enjoyed this book immensely, and can really see why it is named as a classic! Many ‘classic’ novels, I can’t see the worth of, but this one was different. A lot goes on in this story, including vampirism, bug-eating, and there is the famous Dr. Van Helsing! It’s a very typical Victorian novel, with a lot of honour and protection directed towards women, and groups of men acting together and being manly. Although I really enjoyed the book and would read it again, I found the ending a little anticlimactic. Of course, I don’t want to spoil the ending for you :)

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