'I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.' A summer evening's ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine's room, and a runaway imagination -- fired by philosophical discussions with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley about science, galvanism, and the origins of life -- conspired to produce for Mary Shelley this haunting night specter. By morning, it had become the germ of her Romantic masterpiece, "Frankenstein." Written in 1816 when she was only 19, Mary Shelley's novel of 'The Modern Prometheus' chillingly dramatized the dangerous potential of life begotten upon a laboratory table. A frightening creation myth for our own time, "Frankenstein" remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written and is an undisputed classic of its kind.
玛丽·雪莱(1797-1851),英国著名小说家,因其一八一八年创作的《弗兰肯斯坦》被誉为科幻小说之母。
怪物・女性・上帝 ——从弗兰肯斯坦的怪物看人造人的社会设定悖论 《弗兰肯斯坦》(Frankenstein)又有一个副标题,即:《现代的普罗米修斯》(The Modern Prometheus)。全书讲述了一位名为维克多・弗兰肯斯坦(Victor Frankenstein)的科学家创造出一个人造人怪物的哥...
评分关于《科学怪人弗兰肯斯坦》是评论从它诞生那天起就不曾断过,这是一切科幻小说的鼻祖,是恐怖片的源泉,很多后期艺术都有它的影子,例如雨果《巴黎圣母院》卡西莫多一角的设立以及他的性格和遭遇、《剪刀手爱德华》中也有它的缩影,甚至连最近的国产影片《倔强的萝卜》里也可...
评分《弗兰肯斯坦》作为世界第一部科幻作品,其诞生无疑具有深刻的社会历史背景。但是在工业革命的背景下进行描述的这种“造物者”与“被造者”之间的冲突的背后,又是否还有一个更为宏巨的隐喻空间?——引我这样提问的缘故在于,至少在《弗兰肯斯坦》中引申出的“造物者”...
评分《弗兰肯斯坦》作为世界第一部科幻作品,其诞生无疑具有深刻的社会历史背景。但是在工业革命的背景下进行描述的这种“造物者”与“被造者”之间的冲突的背后,又是否还有一个更为宏巨的隐喻空间?——引我这样提问的缘故在于,至少在《弗兰肯斯坦》中引申出的“造物者”...
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