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Blurb: “mUnknown to fiction writers from Mary Shelley to the screenwriters of Holly-wood, the personal diaries and papers of Viktor Frankenstein, creator of living beings, lay untouched and forgotten for over 150 years. based
In the meantime the surviving legend, on the flimsiest and most unreliable evidence, passed on with different embroiderings and omissions.
The fruit of six years of labor by its translatorand editor. this first-ever, long-awaited edition of the diaries at last tells the true story of the agonies and triumphs of Frankenstein, substantiating the central core of the legend yet allowing vivid insights into events never previously contemplated and in some cases almost too horrid to record.
Frankenstein's unique genius put him in the forefront of contemporary scientific study and led him to discoveries in biology, electricity, ultra-sonics, surgical techniques, and the nervous system, which, through his isolation from his colleagues, unremarked.
This went same isolation, coupled with his deliberate rejection of society and family, worked on his already delicately balanced mind to produce in the end experiments which to their perpetrator represented the fulfillment of a divine vocation but to us are little short of appalling.
Rendered in a style as close as possible to the original German, and accompanied by many of Frankenstein's own drawings as well as other documentary illustrations, the diaries tell of colossal aspirations, personal tragedy, professional triumph, a fearful struggle against madness, and an inexorable slide to disaster.”