Frankenstein (I)

Frankenstein was written in 1816, when Mary Shelley, her author, was 18 or 19 years old. Interesting stuff, although must undergo a purge. Do it when I finish. Let me recount here a contradiction. It could be the classic contradiction from an 18 year-old writer, or it could not, apart from all other implausibilities, exotic stories and romantic aura. When Victor Frankenstein is pulled out a piece of ice going astray in the middle of nowhere by the adventurous sailors, and gets recovered, he tells his story to Robert Walton, which begins like this: "I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic". However, two pages later he says: "I, their eldest child, was born at Naples". Interesting lapsus... . The contradiction is solved in a Spanish translation I had at hand last weekend, though.

Anybody noticed? It might be an on-purpose mistake. Romantic stuff, I guess... .

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