Frankenstein - Supernormal Reads

Con solapa, 280 pages

Español language

Published September 2025 by Arpa.

ISBN:: 9791387833176

(1 review)

«¡Maldito sea el día en que recibí la vida!»

Víctor Frankenstein, un joven científico fascinado por los misterios de la vida, traspasa el umbral de lo prohibido y da forma a una criatura artificial. Pero al contemplar su obra —un ser descomunal, solitario y ávido de afecto—, la abandona con horror. Rechazada por todos, la criatura recorre el mundo con una mezcla de curiosidad y rabia, aprendiendo a hablar, a pensar… y a odiar hasta la venganza.

Escrita por Mary Shelley a los dieciocho años, Frankenstein es una historia de terror y ternura, de ciencia y remordimiento, que sigue latiendo con fuerza dos siglos después. Esta edición recupera el texto original de 1818 en la traducción de Carlos Santos Sáez e incluye un posfacio de Clara Pastor. Una novela inmortal que anticipó los dilemas éticos de nuestro tiempo y que aún hoy nos interpela: ¿hasta dónde puede llegar la ambición …

«¡Maldito sea el día en que recibí la vida!»

Víctor Frankenstein, un joven científico fascinado por los misterios de la vida, traspasa el umbral de lo prohibido y da forma a una criatura artificial. Pero al contemplar su obra —un ser descomunal, solitario y ávido de afecto—, la abandona con horror. Rechazada por todos, la criatura recorre el mundo con una mezcla de curiosidad y rabia, aprendiendo a hablar, a pensar… y a odiar hasta la venganza.

Escrita por Mary Shelley a los dieciocho años, Frankenstein es una historia de terror y ternura, de ciencia y remordimiento, que sigue latiendo con fuerza dos siglos después. Esta edición recupera el texto original de 1818 en la traducción de Carlos Santos Sáez e incluye un posfacio de Clara Pastor. Una novela inmortal que anticipó los dilemas éticos de nuestro tiempo y que aún hoy nos interpela: ¿hasta dónde puede llegar la ambición humana sin desatar monstruos que no sabremos comprender ni controlar?

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el dang reviewed Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley

An unexpected pleasure

5 stars

I wasn't expecting to like this book anywhere near as much as I ended up doing! The story as told in the book is much more interesting than the limited image of it that's got in to popular culture, and this was my first encounter with the whole thing. It's so much more about deeply flawed Victor Frankenstein (TLDR: our reading group kept using the term "main character syndrome") than about the mad science process. And while the creature is far from likeable, his portrayal has genuine pathos, even though most of what we hear about him is secondhand through the recounting of someone who hates him.

There are several impressively strong resonances to the modern world, between the general lack of ethics in tech and the current wave of "AI" hype. And of course big self-centred men who think that extreme success in one sphere gives them licence to …

I wasn't expecting to like this book anywhere near as much as I ended up doing! The story as told in the book is much more interesting than the limited image of it that's got in to popular culture, and this was my first encounter with the whole thing. It's so much more about deeply flawed Victor Frankenstein (TLDR: our reading group kept using the term "main character syndrome") than about the mad science process. And while the creature is far from likeable, his portrayal has genuine pathos, even though most of what we hear about him is secondhand through the recounting of someone who hates him.

There are several impressively strong resonances to the modern world, between the general lack of ethics in tech and the current wave of "AI" hype. And of course big self-centred men who think that extreme success in one sphere gives them licence to behave as badly as they like in others.