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Turning the Tables on Frankenstein; In Intricate Postmodern Twist on a Western Myth

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19900730
Author:John Taylor

GOTHIC ROMANCE

By Emmanuel Carrere

Translated from the French by Lanie Goodman

Scribner's. 307 pp. $19.95

Emmanuel Carrere's "Gothic Romance" is centrifugal in effect. After no more than 40 pages, you rush to the library in search of "Frankenstein" and biographies of Mary Shelley, her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and John Polidori. Carrere, like Dr. Frankenstein himself, sparks back into life these four rivalrous companions, who while sojourning near Geneva in 1816 played many games, the most innocent of which involved writing ghost stories. None persisted in this ...

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