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Mary Shelley’s 1818 work still fascinates and disturbs 21st-century readers and spectators, who are absorbed into the nightmarish world of a mad scientist, a creative genius who cannot cope with the results of his creativity. The history of Shelley’s work reflects that of the monstrous and neglected creature, who keeps returning unexpectedly into the life of his creator.
Speaker (in Heb.): Prof. Galia Benziman, The English Department, The Hebrew University Jerusalem
Passionate and rebellious Mary Wollstonecraft finds a kindred spirit in poet Percy Shelley. Their whirlwind love affair scandalizes polite society, as the young couple gorge on literature and a bohemian life. When tragedy strikes and they lose their baby daughter, Mary strikes back, finding the courage to transform her pain into the world’s first science fiction novel, Frankenstein – all by the age of eighteen. This new film by Haifaa Al-Mansour (Wadjda), was described by the Hollywood Reporter as "a luscious-looking spectacle, drenched in the colors and visceral sensations of nature, the sensuality of young lovers, the passionate disappointment of loss and betrayal. But above all it is a film about ideas that breaks out of the well-worn mold of period drama."
