Bram Stoker
Abraham Stoker , known as Bram Stoker , (November 8th 1847 - London, April 21st 1912) is an Irish, famous writer as an author of Dracula .
Life and work
It was born with Clontarf, in the north of Dublin, of a father civil servant to the General secretary of Dublin castle and of a mother engaged in favor of the female condition. Morbid child until the eight years age, it listens to at the time of his long convalescence the Irish legends Surnaturel told by his mother. These accounts will mark it all its life.
In 1863, it integrates the Trinity College of Dublin to follow the traces of his/her father: it obtains its diploma in 1870.
In 1867, it meets the theater world and writing for a newspaper. These signed articles, written in margin of its occupation of civil servant, are worth to him to attend the London cultural company. In 1875, it publishes its first novel The Chain . It binds friendship with Henry Irving, an influential actor. This friendship leads them to Lyceum Theater of London, whose Bram is named administrator. It then takes its place in the British cultural company. In 1911, it publishes The Lair off the White WORM , which is a considerable success but well below that of Dracula .
Bram Stoker, while creating the literary character of Dracula, follows the line of the authors then attracted by the Fantastique, such Mary Shelley and its Frankenstein . This new literary vein corresponds to the historical context of the time. The Great Britain of the end of the 19th century lived in a climate of terror and taboos. The time victorienne saw its dignity and its imposing presence shaken by the murders of the prostitutes made by Jack the eventror. Stoker is thus a writer who married the concerns of his time.
Its major work: Dracula - 1897
He worked ten years on Dracula , having taken knowledge thanks to Arminius Vambéry (of its true name Hermann Vamberger), specialist in the Central Europe, the history of Vlad Tepes.Stoker appears very perfectionist and its work is connected as much with a novel as with a study ethnological, historical, geographical or folk. Unfortunately, this work was not immediate success and it will be necessary to await the death of the author so that the name of " Dracula" reach the posterity.
According to Matei Cazacu, author with the Tallandier editions of a reference book on Dracula, Bram Stoker is largely " inspiré" of a novel of Marie Nizet entitled the Captain Vampire . But even if there were Plagiat, it is well the feather of Stoker which made it possible Dracula par excellence to become the vampire.
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