by Alberto Manguel · GEDISA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497840958
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In this book, Alberto Manguel explores James Whale's film 'The Bride of Frankenstein,' offering a detailed analysis and examining the role of women in artistic representations, especially in the horror genre. The author shares his first experience with fear in his childhood in Buenos Aires, when he saw the film and was shocked by the monster created with pieces of human corpses. This book delves into the figure of the monster in film and literature, offering a critical and insightful perspective.
Alberto Manguel is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor, and a former director of the National Library of Argentina. He is a cosmopolitan and polyglot scholar, speaking English, Spanish, German, and French fluently, and also Italian and Portuguese at a very advanced level. He left Argentina at the age of twenty, in 1968. He has lived in Israel, Argentina, France, United Kingdom, Italy, French Polynesia, Canada, United States and Portugal. Since 2021 he has directed an international center for reading studies in Lisbon, baptized in 2023 as Espaço Atlântida; In the biography of the center's website you can read: "He became a Canadian citizen and continues to identify his nationality as first and foremost Canadian."
