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El libro para mí se merece, siempre, las cinco estrellas. Ahora, esta edición en concreto... Entre la cantidad de faltas de ortografía y tipografía y según qué licencias con la traducción...
Después de leerlo, soy incapaz de ver las adaptaciones. Amo este libro, me encanta demasiado, es demasiado bueno y una historia de terror y el hermoso amor entre Jonathan y Mina, la pobre Lucy y el resto de los personajes, el inmenso amor que le tengo a Seward y el terror que infunde Drácula, es algo maravillosos y me duele que no exista (o aún no encuentre) una adaptación digna.
Empeze a leer la edición anotada para entender mejor la trama y la historia
One of the books I am extremely fond of and could reread over and over again! This is a classic in the world of horror fiction. Although not the first tale alluding to Vampirism or making of it the center of the plot, it is the one which instilled the genre for over a century now. Ever since Dracula, most -not to say all- vampire stories have one or more of the features of that fearful Transylvanian count in the bearing, appearance, designs, or behavior of their characters.The novel, however, is not merely a horror tale with a somewhat Gothic and monstrous antagonist at its center. It is also a study in the socio-historical conditions of the era. Its plot, by means of illustration, provides a series of contrasts between old traditions and new ideals, scientific rationality versus folklore, and the superstitious old Europe against Modern London. The book supplies numerous references to the latest ideas and inventions of the time in order to reflect the rapid technological changes during the late Victorian period. These references cover phonographs, kodak cameras, portable typewriters, and telegrams in addition to the new medical and psychological theories. Moreover, the entire plot of the novel is presented in the form of letters, diary entries, and newspapers cuttings to convey the scientifically advanced method of observing, analyzing, and recording information. Side by side with this revolutionary rise of science, Stocker appeals to the religious faith in dealing with the supernatural monster in an attempt to revive the religious zeal in an age mostly dominated by secularism. In keeping with the Fin-de-siècle Renaissance of Gothic literature, the book plays on the fears of the late Victorian society especially in connection with the fear of moral degeneration caused by Darwin's theory of evolution. At the same time, the foreign origin of the count can be read as an allegorical representation of the anxiety related to immigration at the time. Immigrants were then closely linked to vice, disease, and corruption. All three can be found in Dracula who's presence in London contaminates everyone with a strain of Vampirism. The two female characters in the novel serve an even more important feat which Stocker had attempted to accomplish. Mina Murray, on the one hand, escapes the preying of the fearful monster by dint of her traditional virtues as "the angel in the house". Lucy Westenra, on the other hand, falls victim to her own unconventional desires and needs as a "new woman". This portrayal suggests to the mind Stocker's possible opposition to the new woman and his preference of conventions. Overall, the book is a classic scare. It is dark, creepy, suspenseful, and interesting, which would allow its enjoyment by many more generations to come.
The original and the best. We all know about dracula. But it is a grand tale of bloodlust that makes you wonder... was this ever real? If you have Never read Dracula you should. I have seen so many retellings of this book, but up until now i had never read this book. Well i can safely say now i have read it and that is just one more class off my list. I enjoyed the heck out of it. I may even read it on the lead up to halloween next year.
The Harker family are my shayla forever, they're sooooo cute 🥹🥹 Honestly I'm glad I found an audiobook for that one, still liked it tho
Me costó un mundo leerlo pero valió la pena, aunque el final fue un poco apresurado.
I didn't totally hate this book, but it was pretty lame. It started off promising and then became a mess of words. I was sick of it by the half-way mark and had to force myself to finish it just in case there was something good at the end. There wasn't. Maybe it's just a thing with classics, but it dragged on for soooo long that it mentally tired me.
3.5 / 5Really loved the first half.Second time reading- reread it for illustration project.
I've read this book six times already, all of them in the spam of 4 years. I own six copies of this book, each a bit different from the other. There's something so interesting to me about this book... I can't really tell if it's the way each and every man has the ability to feel love so deeply that they're willing to die and kill for a woman, wether she be their loved one or a kind-hearted mother like stranger. There's something very sweet on the idea that that love comforts them through times as hard as they face.On the other hand, there are things that bother me: John's inability to associate things like "blood consumer patient", "master", "vampires cannot come into a house uninvited", "please, doctor, let me go because I don't wanna do something evil". It makes perfect sense, giving that they already knew about Renfield's connection to the count, to asume that he's trying to keep him out. Well, whatever.Then Jonathan is just blind or something because you read about a poor girl sleeping and sleeping and getting paler and paler, and your wife goes through the same and you are just like "she's sad"...All of that aside, I love this book. I'll read again, for sure, as I tend to read any work related to it, wether it be to complete this journals, or to give it a little twist.
This gothic novel is a timeless classic and one I can read over and over again and still come away as emotional as I did the first time I read it in primary school. Whilst not the first book written about vampires, Stoker's work has been the basis of every tale of the Nosferatu ever since. There is a magic in his writing that has ensured the lure of Dracula never ends.Stoker's ability to describe events in such detail ensures that the reader feels as though they too are in the crumbling Castle Dracula in Transylvania or walking along the waterfront of Whitby hunting down a ship carrying the infamous vampire. The novel itself is written from the viewpoints of all the main characters who encounter Dracula, bar one - Renfield who is a patient at an insane asylum. I always found it intriguing that we never see events through the eyes of the Count himself and would have been very interested to see what he felt about being hunted through Victorian era Europe. The world for him of course has evolved greatly over hundreds of years and I always wondered to myself 'Why now?' as in what was it that made Dracula leave Transylvania for London at that point. Whilst the obvious thing is the sheer amount of people living there and whilst there is so much life going about people, they rarely notice the dead or missing? That could have been true for other periods in history and places across Europe. (Obviously I know it was written during Victoria's reign but still, curiosity and I'm the cat)Told through diary entries, letters and newspaper articles Stoker ensures that the reader is given each person's encounter with Dracula and the various beings under his control in wonderful detail. It is of course, Jonathan Harker's viewpoint that is the most disturbing and long as he suffers months with the Count, his three 'brides' and the wolves that linger at the Count's bidding. There are moments when Harker is still in Transylvania that I feel 'spooked' by the story, as you witness the change in the young lawyer from a strong confident man to one who is a shadow of his former self due to what he witnesses. (I won't spoil it for those who haven't read this incredible tale)Whilst the story is quite simple at heart, we witness many of Victorian England's ideologies and its follies. There is a battle between science and religion as science truly came into its own during this time. The female characters are both at times victims of their own sex, how they are to be guarded and protected from things that would affect their frailty in comparison to strong minded men. Victorian tales often have the damsel in distress play a large role in their telling and whilst Lucy and Mina are strong-minded and relatively modern women for the time? They are also damsels in distress and victims of Dracula's desire to create vampires in England. Stoker clearly explored so many aspects of mankind both from the religious and the scientific point of view when writing Dracula. He was in my humble opinion a genius and a man whose thoughts and views whilst being very much of the time, were also that of the future. I truly believe Dracula will have a place in literature for eternity even if the Count himself may not.