Dracula

Section: Translated Novels

Number of pages: 671 pages

Dracula is one of the most famous literary characters that rebelled against its original text and acquired its own manifestations in other texts in addition to many cinematic, theatrical and cartoon works. This resulted in a stereotypical image being formed in people’s imagination about Dracula as a hidden horror story dominated by the comics character, but if we return to this novel, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which is considered the first creation of this character, we will find a world very different from what we have in mind about this story. This novel, which has received hundreds of critical studies and various analyses for its deep symbolism, presents us with an integrated and complex narrative structure in a direct confrontation between the ideas of good and evil, revealing the social systems of its era and profusely digging into the human soul with its instincts and motives, in addition to the intellectual presentation of many issues centered around what was known in that era as the concept of modernity. All of this did not confiscate the narrative suspense in which the story was written in a brilliant style that varies between memoirs and letters from Perspectives from more than five different characters