吸血鬼ドラキュラ (角川文庫)

by ブラム・ストーカー, 田内 志文

ヨーロッパの辺境、荒れ果てた城に住むドラキュラ伯爵。彼は昼に眠り、夜は目覚める吸血鬼であった――。人の生き血を求め闇を徘徊するドラキュラ伯爵。不死者と人間の闘いが、いま始まろうとしている……。

580 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 25, 2014

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I finally finished Dracula, and I was surprised by how different it felt from the image I already had. Dracula himself comes across more like an eerie old man than a charming vampire, and it was interesting to see where all the classic vampire “rules” actually came from—bats, garlic, coffins, crosses, and so on.

What really shocked me was how abruptly the story ends. Dracula is killed without any real confrontation, explanation, or even a single line of dialogue. It made the ending feel unsettling rather than triumphant.

The hunters are almost unrealistically virtuous, while Dracula’s allies are people pushed to the margins of society, which gave me the uncomfortable feeling that the story is less about pure good vs. evil and more about who gets to decide what is “normal.”

Overall, it’s an influential and fascinating novel, but not the simple good-wins-evil story I expected.