Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Carmilla (Annotated) Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment. We have a certain weakness for the classic ghost stories. And especially for vampires. Carmilla, from the Irish Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, one of the classics of the vampiric genre, was nonetheless one of the most blatant gaps we had. Until today. In fact, it has been a long time since a copy of this book was installed in my stack of earrings (surely the one who left it for me doesn't even remember...), but for A or B, it was always delaying its reading. The publication of the extraordinary edition, however, was the definitive stimulus I needed to read it at once. Carmilla has the reputation of being one of the first tales of vampires, and one that indelibly links the terrifying element with the sensual. 25 years before Stoker's famous Dracula, some have wanted to relate a good part of the adventures of the unfortunate Jonathan Harker in the Count's castle with the three vampires with the adventures of Laura and Carmilla in this story.