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After the premature death of his mother, the reckless doctor Victor Frankenstein has a single purpose: to find a way to defeat death. Therefore, setting ethical considerations aside, he devotes himself body and soul to creating a new being. But the situation gets out of hand, triggering a cascade of tragic events.
In this brilliant work, a pioneer of the science fiction genre and an indisputable high point of Gothic and Romantic literature, the author explores the dangers of unchecked technological development, the senselessness of hatred and blind revenge, and the permeable boundaries between good and evil. A fitting allegory of the individual's loneliness in modern societies, starring Mary W. Shelley’s fascinating creature, a complex antihero capable of moving us simultaneously to disgust and compassion.