"The lightning was all around me. I looked at the huge body. The silver light reached the hands, the feet and the head. For a moment everything was quiet. Was it moving? No, yes! An arm moved, then a leg. Then I heard breathing. Yes, the man was breathing. He was alive!"--Back cover.
Victor Frankenstein dreams of doing what his scientific peers called impossible; creating life from death. As lightning flashes across the sky, his creature stirs. But will it be the perfect being he imagines, or a monster?
“MONSTER, a slick and streamlined new stage adaptation of the Frankenstein saga written by Neal Bell...is faithful to Shelley, if not in all the exhaustive details, then at least insofar as it seizes on its thematic highlights. Mr Bell’s adaptation plucks the major events from the narrative, and his language treads a colorful a mixture of fanciful poetics, glib wisecrackery and an occasional Anglo-Saxon obscenity that lends a contemporary tint to things.”Bruce Weber, The New York Times “...a lean literate version of Shelley’s often much-embroidered classic. Exploring Shelley’s psychosexual undertones, Bell’s version is more creepy than shocking in effect. He also provides a viable new conclusion for the novel’s open-ended narrative.”Michael Sommers, The Star-Ledger “Starting from Shelley’s original, but with a sharp eye for cogency and a sharp ear for the turn of a phrase, [Neal Bell] has managed to locate the philosophic germ inside each of the horror myth’s iconic scenes. The scare is still there, but it now has other functions than merely frightening your inner child with fantasies of impotence, rape and castration on a dark and stormy night. If you really want to frighten yourself, there’s always today’s paper; if you want a dramatic story that makes you think about the meaning and purpose of life, you should probably go and see MONSTER.”Michael Feingold, Village Voice
Presents the famous story of a young man who thinks he can change the world by making better human beings. Instead he creates a living monster with a mind of its own. This book contains activities designed to support the KS3 Framework for Teaching English and help students to meet the Framework objectives. schovat popis
Vollständige deutsche, überarbeitete und kommentierte Fassung mit Vorwort zu Autorin und Werk Einer der wichtigsten Schauerromane ("Gothic fiction") der Literaturgeschichte. In einem Atemzug zu nennen mit Dracula oder den Werken von H.P. Lovecraft und Edgar Allan Poe. 1818 unter denkwürdigen Umständen von einer blutjungen 20-jährigen geschrieben, erzählt diese Novelle die Geschehnisse um den genialen Viktor Frankenstein, der einen künstlichen Menschen erschafft. Es ist der Kampf des Menschen mit Gottes Werk. Schliesslich muss auch Frankensteins faustischer Pakt misslingen. Das Monster entkommt. Weltbekannt durch zahlreiche Verfilmungen; die bekannteste mit Boris Karloff in der Rolle seine Lebens. Gelistet in Harenbergs "Das Buch der 1000 Bücher" Umfang: 263 Normseiten bzw. 285 Buchseiten.
