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基本説明
2018年は英国の作家メアリー・シェリーが『フランケンシュタイン』の初版を出版して200周年の節目の年となり、数々の記念行事が企画されています。
SFの創始者とも呼ばれるシェリーですが、本書はあのような奇怪な物語を執筆しさらに出版を続けた背景にはどのような人生の軌跡が見られるのかを探ります。
著者は現代イギリスを代表する詩人の一人で歴史ある詩誌ポエトリー・レビューの編集者も務めたフィオナ・サンプソン。(2018/02/20)
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Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets, philosophers and writers of the day. Aged sixteen, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, embarking on a relationship that was lived on the move across Britain and Europe, as she coped with debt, infidelity and the deaths of three children, before early widowhood changed her life forever. Most astonishingly, it was while she was still a teenager that Mary composed her canonical novel Frankenstein, creating two of our most enduring archetypes today. The life story is well-known. But who was the woman who lived it? She's left plenty of evidence, and in this fascinating dialogue with the past, Fiona Sampson sifts through letters, diaries and records to find the real woman behind the story. She uncovers a complex, generous character - friend, intellectual, lover and mother - trying to fulfil her own passionate commitment to writing at a time when to be a woman writer was an extraordinary and costly anomaly.Published for the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, this is a major new work of biography by a prize-winning writer and poet.
