Издания и произведения

"Журнал Виктора Франкенштейна" - это захватывающий роман-миф, взгляд из двадцать первого века на историю, рассказанную почти двести лет назад английской писательницей Мэри Шелли. Ее книга "Франкенштейн, или Современный Прометей" прогремела в свое время на весь мир. Питер Акройд переосмыслил сюжет Мэри Шелли. Повествование он ведет от лица главного героя - создателя знаменитого монстра. В начале XIX столетия Виктор Франкенштейн, студент Оксфорда, используя новейшие достижения науки, решается на роковой эксперимент: он пытается с помощью электричества реанимировать мертвое тело. В результате возникает существо, обладающее…

Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn in the secluded village of Headington, near Oxford. The coroner's office provides the corpses he needs - but they have often died by violent means and are damaged and putrifying. Victor moves his coils and jars and electrical fluids to a deserted pottery manufactury in Limehouse. And, from Limehouse, makes contact with the Doomesday Men - the resurrectionists. Victor pays better than any hospital for the bodies of the very recently dead. Even so, perfect specimens are hard to come by... until that Thames-side dawn when Victor, waiting, wrapped in his greatcoat, on his wooden…

Peter Ackroyd’s imagination dazzles in this brilliant novel written in the voice of Victor Frankenstein himself. Mary Shelley and Shelley are characters in the novel. It was at Oxford that I first met Bysshe. We arrived at our college on the same day; confusing to a mere foreigner, it is called University College. I had seen him from my window and had been struck by his auburn locks. The long-haired poet — “Mad Shelley” — and the serious-minded student from Switzerland spark each other’s interest in the new philosophy of science which is overturning long-cherished beliefs. Perhaps there is no God. In which case, where is the divine…