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Bram Stoker: Dracula / Bilingual book review

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Bram Stoker: Dracula
Buchbesprechung auf Deutsch


Ich habe die englische, bei Penguin Books erschienene, Ausgabe gelesen. Was die englische Sprache betrifft, merkt man doch, dass "Dracula" aus dem Jahr 1897 ist. Hinzu kommt, dass hin und wieder Dialekte vorkommen. Alles in allem lohnt sich aber die Mühe, den Roman auf englisch zu lesen.

Die oben genannte Ausgabe beinhaltet außerdem noch eine Einleitung, eine Literaturliste, Anmerkungen, einen Briefwechsel zwischen Bram Stoker und Walt Whitman, einen Brief von Charlotte Stoker an ihren Sohn Bram Stoker, einen Essay von Stoker über Zensur und ein Interview Stokers, das er mit Winston Churchill geführt hat.

Das Besondere an "Dracula" ist, dass die Geschichte aus immer wieder unterschiedlichen Perspektiven in Form von Tagebuchaufzeichnungen, Briefen, Zeitungsartikeln und dergleichen erzählt wird. Dieses "Original" der Vampirgeschichten geht weit über eine Gruselgeschichte hinaus. "Dracula" bringt den Leser zum Nachdenken über die Natur von Wirklichkeit und Traum. Identität, Traumwelt, Geisteskrankheit, Sexualtrieb und die Liebe sind weitere Dreh- und Angelpunkte dieser Geschichte. | © Elmar Driver



Bram Stoker: Dracula
Book review in English


I've read the English book that was published by Penguin Books. If you aren't a native speaker you might have some problems while reading this text from the year 1897. From time to time there are also parts containing British dialects. But all in all it's worth reading the original English edition, of course.

This Penguin book has an introduction, a book list, notes, and some letters as well that were written between Bram Stoker and Walt Whitman. You'll also find a letter from Charlotte Stoker to her son Bram Stoker, an essay by Stoker about censorship and an interview that Stoker did with Winston Churchill.

The interesting thing about this text is that the story is told from different points of view, be it in diaries, letters, newspaper articles and so on. This first vampire story is far more than a spine-chiller. It makes us think about the nature of reality and dream. It's about identity, dream world, insanity, sexual desire and love. | © Elmar Driver

Nosferatu - Eine Symphonie des Grauens (Movie tip)

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"Nosferatu - Eine Symphonie des Grauens"
by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
with Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Alexander Granach, Georg H. Schnell, ...
(Germany 1922)



Plot

An unauthorized production of Bram Stoker's work with enough preserved to recognize, but enough changed to be legal (names changed to protect the innocent?).

Count Orlok's move to Bremen brings the plague traceable to his dealings with the realtor Thomas Hutter, and the Count's obsession with Hutter's wife, Ellen the only one with the power to end the evil. | © Denise Stickel

Dan Curtis: Bram Stoker's Dracula (A movie tip)

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"Bram Stoker's Dracula"
by Dan Curtis
with Jack Palance, Nigel Davenport, Pamela Brown, ...
(Great Britain 1973)



Plot

May, 1897. British real estate clerk Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to convey the purchase of a property in Whitby in England for Count Dracula.


But Dracula is a vampire and allows Jonathan to be taken by his three brides. Five weeks later Dr Van Helsing is called to Whitby to tend Jonathan's fiancée Mina Murray and then Lucy Westenra as they fall inexplicably ill.

Tracing the source of the illness brings him Van Helsing up against Dracula who believes Lucy to be the reincarnation of his love and is determined to make her immortally his. | © Richard Scheib

Listen to the song "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus

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Artist: Bauhaus
Album: Crackle
Title: Bela Lugosi's Dead
Year: 1979 (The single)


















Lyrics

White on white translucent black capes
Back on the rack
Bela Lugosi's dead
The bats have left the bell tower
The victims have been bled
Red velvet lines the black box
Bela Lugosi's dead
Undead undead undead
The virginal brides file past his tomb
Strewn with time's dead flowers
Bereft in deathly bloom
Alone in a darkened room
The count
Bela Lugosi's dead
Undead undead undead


To listen to this song please click here: Bela Lugosi's Dead