The Secret Life of Laszlo: Count Dracula

Roderick Anscombe

ISBN 10: 0786860405 / ISBN 13: 9780786860401

Editore: Hyperion, 1994

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Riassunto:

In his mesmerizing fictional debut, psychiatrist Roderick Anscombe takes readers into the fevered mind of Count Dracula the man - aristocrat, doctor, and helpless killer of young women. There are no vampires in this stunningly erotic reinvention of the classic myth, only tormented human beings.
Tortured by his own perverse desires, the distinguished Dr. Dracula is drawn to posses and destroy young women, first in Paris where he is studying with the renowned pioneer of hypnosis, Charcot, and then in the Hungarian countryside, as the Count takes over the deteriorating family estate. Even as he maintains the facade of the aristocratic life, Dracula is drawn inexorably into a world of violent emotion, blood lust, and self-loathing.
Swirling between the scientific fact and superstition of the day - and propelled into the medical epidemics and politics of the Austro-Hungarian empire - Dracula becomes a public saint and a private savage, and all the while a plausible and pitiable human being.
Here is a novel not of the supernatural but the all-too-human, not of a monster but a man. The Secret Life of Laszlo, Count Dracula is a bravura performance from a marvelous new writer.

Informazioni sull?autore: Roderick Anscombe is assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School.

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Titolo: The Secret Life of Laszlo: Count Dracula
Casa editrice: Hyperion
Data di pubblicazione: 1994
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Good
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