Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo

In the summer of 1816, the poet Percy B. Shelley and his wife Mary met with Lord Byron and his physician at a villa on the shores of Lake Geneva. At Lord Byron's suggestion, and to liven up a stormy evening, they decided that each would invent a ghost story. The quieter and more reserved Mary Shelley thus gave life to what would become her most famous character: Dr. Frankenstein. A year later, she would complete the novel. The story is well known: a scientist decides to create a creature with a life of its own, only to later reject it. A metaphor for life, freedom, and love, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a marvelous fable with all the ingredients of the great myths, a true classic that we now present in a new translation, preceded by a splendid study by Alberto Manguel on the myth's influence on cinematic imagery.