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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. There is something wrong with this edition. There are ...By Kitten Fluff KnitsThere is something wrong with this edition. There are missing words throughout and numerous typos. If you want to read this book choose another edition!1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Get out the binoculars!By Sheila Van HoutenI see 20/25 unassisted, but the print size used in this little book must be about a 5. Don't buy it unless you have binoculars. I am throwing it away.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Gothic MasterpieceBy Carl SavichZastrozzi: A Romance (1810) is a Gothic horror novel masterpiece by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Zastrozzi was the first publushed prose work by Shelley in 1810. He wrote Zastrozzi when he was seventeen and a student at Eton. People remember Percy Bysshe Shelley today as a poet who wrote Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, the 1819 tragic play The Cenci, Prometheus Unbound, and The Masque of Anarchy. Shelley began his literary career, however, with the publication of two Gothic horror romance novels, Zastrozzi, A Romance in 1810 and St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian, A Romance in 1811. Shelley is regarded as one of the greatest poets in the English language. His prose writings, however, have been neglected and overlooked.Zastrozzi is about obsession, revenge, and the agony of unrequited love. Zastrozzi first kidnaps Verezzi and imprisons him in a dungeon. Bernardo and Ugo guard him. Zastrozzi seeks revenge against Verezzi to avenge his mother. Matilda is obsessively in love with Verezzi. Verezzi, however, is in love with Julia. Zastrozzi manipulates Matilda to destroy Verezzi. He exploits Matilda's obsessive love for Verezzi to destroy both.Zastrozzi is a complex psychological thriller. The story is not a simple tale about good versus evil. Zastrozzi goes beyond good and evil. Zastrozzi is a precursor of the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche. Zastrozzi is a precursor of Rodion Raskolnikov of Crime and Punishment and Also Sprach Zarathustra. He is a superman who dismisses ordinary morality. He is an atheist for whom all is permitted. Zastrozzi is a demi-god, an assassin, who creates his own values and laws and morality.Zastrozzi is a tale of pure horror. Zastrozzi is not satiated to kill merely the body. He seeks to kill the soul. Death is not the worst that can happen. He keeps Verezzi alive to be able to inflict unspeakable tortures on him and to terrorize and to manipulate him. Zastrozzi seeks to punish not only the alleged wrongdoer, but to punish their progeny as well. Ironically, Verezzi and Zastrozzi may have had the same father. Verezzi is his half-brother. Zastrozzi seeks revenge against his own father, his human Creator. It is a revolt against God, against the father, against the Creator. This is a theme that would reappear in his 1819 tragic play The Cenci, and also in Frankenstein. Zastrozzi is angry with God and seeks to create his own reality, his own world. He becomes a god himself. The inquisition has no terrors for him. Death has no terror for him. He creates his own values and morality. He can do whatever he wishes with other human beings. He decides their fate, whether they will live or die. Zastrozzi reaches the limits of human horror and depravity and terror.Man rejects God and becomes a god himself. God is dead. This theme was later central to the Gothic novel Frankenstein by Shelley's wife Mary Shelley. Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote the preface to that novel in 1818 published anonymously and according to John Lauritsen in The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein (2007), Percy Bysshe Shelley was the real author of Frankenstein. At the very least, Percy contributed major portions to that novel which shows his influence on every page.Percy Bysshe Shelley was a revolutionary visionary and firebrand who pushed the boundaries in literature and in his life. Zastrozzi reflects his artistic vision. The themes and central ideas of Zastrozzi are ones that would reappear. Zastrozzi is an unfairly overlooked and ignored Gothic horror masterpeice by one of the greatest Romantic writers.Zastrozzi was reprinted in 1839 in The Romancist and Novelist's Library and was successfully adapted into a play in 1977 by Canadian playwright George F. Walker and turned into a British television mini-series in 1986 starring Academy Award-winning actress Tilda Swinton as Julia.Zastrozzi is highly recommended. The Dodo Press paperback version is an excellent new edition of the novel.
Zastrozzi: A Romance is a gothic novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley first published in 1810 in London by George Wilkie and John Robinson as "by P.B.S.". The first of Shelley's two early, gothic novels, it outlines his atheistic worldview through the villain Zastrozzi and touches upon his earliest thoughts on irresponsible self-indulgence and violent revenge. An 1810 reviewer wrote that the main character "Zastrozzi is one of the most savage and improbable demons that ever issued from a diseased brain."Shelley wrote Zastrozzi at the age of seventeen while attending his last year at Eton College, though it was not published until later in 1810 while he was attending University College, Oxford. The novel was Shelley's first published prose work. -- from Wikipedia
From the PublisherHesperus Press, as suggested by their Latin motto, Et remotissima prope, is dedicated to bringing near what is far—far both in space and time. Works by illustrious authors, often unjustly neglected or simply little known in the English–speaking world, are made accessible through a completely fresh editorial approach or new translations. Through these short classic works, which feature forewords by leading contemporary authors, the modern reader will be introduced to the greatest writers of Europe and America. An elegantly designed series of exceptional books.From the Inside Flap…any purpose undertaken with ardour, and prosecuted with perseverance, must eventually be crowned with success. Love is worthy of any risk – I felt it once, but revenge has now swallowed up every other feeling of my soul. I am alive to nothing but revenge.About the AuthorOne of the greatest English poets and the most influential leader of the Romantic Movement. Shelley is considered one of the best lyrical poets of England. He was a visionary and his work reflects his enthusiasm for life.
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