Drácula

Before being elevated by the cinema to one of the privileged positions of the imaginary of the 20th century, the vampire legend that prolongs its existence at the cost of the blood of its victims had to reach a literary formulation that would bring together the accumulation of scattered elements of the legend and popular imagination, as well as his own literary precedents. The Irishman Bram Stoker (1847-1912) knew how to synthesize in "Dracula" (1897) in a unique way several of the deepest human drives (life, death, sexuality) in its most diverse and ambiguous manifestations, such as good and evil, light and darkness, the unwanted but irresistible surrender, to illuminate this fascinating story that is already an indisputable classic of horror literature. Translation by Francisco Torres Oliver