Frankissstein
en kärlekshistoria
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Publisher Description
Om kropparna vi lever i och om kropparna vi vill ha. Det är en regnig och kylig sommar 1816 vid Genève-sjön, där ett litet sällskap, bestående av Byron, Shelley och Mary Shelley samlas. De roar sig med spökhistorier och samtal om möjligheten att väcka en död människa till nytt liv. Till en mässa i Memphis tvåhundra år senare anländer Ry Shelley, läkare och transperson, för att studera robotars påverkan på människans hälsa. Han bekantar sig snabbt med den vackra receptionisten Claire och walesaren Ron Lord, som producerar avancerade sex-robotar, och träffar också den karismatiske Victor Stein. Jeanette Winterson har gjort ett lekfullt omtag på Mary Shelleys klassiska ”Frankenstein”. En bok om AI och flytande könsgränser.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Winterson (The Gap of Time) reimagines literary classic Frankenstein both the story and the genesis of it in her magnificent latest. The book shuttles back and forth between 1816, when a challenge leads Mary Shelley to write her indelible character and the monster he creates, and the present day, when a transgender man named Ry Shelley delves deeper into the burgeoning world and industry surrounding robotics and AI. A medical doctor, Ry supplies body parts to the professor Victor Stein, a brilliant if elusive man whose vision of the future is one in which human intelligence can transcend the limitations of needing a physical body. Victor's interest in Ry is multifold: there is what Ry can procure for him through hospitals, and there is attraction both romantic and platonic interest in the physical manifestation of Ry's gender identity, which Victor calls "future-early" and Ry calls "doubleness." Winterson's recreation of the story of Mary Shelley's creative process and later life and work is splendid, but it's the modern analogue of the famous Lake Geneva party that is truly inspired. There is the hilariously crass sexbot entrepreneur Ron Lord, the evangelical capitalist Claire, and the nosy nuisance of Vanity Fair reporter Polly D, who's constantly convinced she's on to something. This vividly imagined and gorgeously constructed novel will have readers laughing out loud and then pondering their personhood and mortality on the next page.)
