Dracula is an epistolary novel by Irish writer Bram Stoker published in 1897. Tells the story of Count Dracula, a vampire, that is to say, an immortal being who feeds on the blood of living and transforms them turn into vampires. The complexity of the character of Dracula renewed by modern themes dear to psychoanalysis as a combination of Eros and Thanatos - sexual desire and death - or questioning limits (between beast and man, between life and death or between Good and Evil ...) will make it a modern myth that the film will be amplified. Some adaptations, such as Nosferatu, Dracula by Tod Browning, Horror of Dracula, Dracula and Francis Ford Coppola have become classics of cinema. chapter 1 Jonathan Harker is a young solicitor's clerk who goes to Romania to make a big real estate transaction with a certain Count Dracula. Harker is seduced by the scenery through which it passes in a Europe that was unknown to him. He mentioned in his journal of his discoveries in order to exchange them then with his wife. However, his arrival in the region is confusing the local population visibly afraid of Dracula's castle. The journey that leads to the castle is a frightening journey fraught with difficulties and unexplained phenomena...
About the Author: Abraham said Stoker Bram Stoker was born November 8, 1847 in Clontarf (a northern suburb of Dublin) and died in London April 20, 1912, is a British writer of Irish descent, author of numerous novels and short stories, which had the fame through his book Dracula.His father was Abraham Stoker (1799-1876) and his mother, feminist Matilda Charlotte Thornley (1818-1901). Bram is the third in a family of seven children. Sickly child until the age of 13, he listens during his long convalescence, told by his mother, the Bible, the Irish legends, or the story of the cholera epidemic in the early nineteenth century, which his mother's family had escaped. These stories will mark his life. In 1863, he joined the Trinity College (Dublin) to follow in the footsteps of his father, he graduated in science and mathematics in 1870. In 1867 he attended a performance of Henry Irving at the Theatre Royal Dublin (en). Bram Stoker began a correspondence with the American writer Walt Whitman. In 1871 he published his first article in the theater section of the Dublin Mail. These items signed, written in the margin of his profession servant, led him to attend the London cultural society. This year seems Carmilla by Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu, Stoker novel highly appreciated. In 1872 published the first account of Stoker, The Crystal Cup in the magazine London Society. In 1875 he published his first novel The Chain of Destiny. In 1876, he befriended Henry Irving, an influential player. This leads to the Lyceum Theatre in London friendship, which Stoker was appointed administrator. He then takes his place in British cultural society. In 1876, his father died; Stoker finally adopted the nickname Bram. He married a former neighbor childhood, Florence Balcombe in 1878. Their son Christmas Thornley was born in 1879. Appears in 1881 Under the Sunset, a collection of stories for children.