Dracula is best remembered of Bram Stoker's novel and its many adaptations cinématographiques.Quant the historical personage is mentioned these are cautionary tales of cruelty that come to esprit.Mais that we really know about this controversial character? If some have described as a bloody tyrant, others were the spearhead of the struggle against the Ottoman Empire and have built the rank of national hero roumain.Comprendre the character is to grasp his century the situation in present-day Romania XV siècle.C'est this fascinating book that seeks to faire.Mateî Cazacu dropped the masks and restores the character in his temps.Vlad Dracula is Wallachian Transylvanian origin and not as implies the Bram Stoker in his novel éponyme.Durant successive reigns, that Wallachian prince will constantly try to preserve the integrity of Wallachia curse of the Kingdom of Hungary (it even rivaled the Holy Roman German Empire ) and fight against the raids ottomans.Dracula evolving in an era marked by the ambivalence of relations between the belligerents its temps.Si it seizes the throne of Wallachia with the support of Ottoman garrisons, he will fight with hard against these same Ottoman supported by the Kingdom of Hungary which nevertheless works to remove him from Dracula pouvoir.Vlad appears as a useful and hateful pawn in the political spectrum of the King of Hongrie.Utile because his raids against the Ottoman are more efficaces.Détestable because aware of the political machinations of Matthias Corvinus and the Catholic church, Vlad Tepes persecutes all those who may represent a disorder in Valachie.Les political pamphlets of the time describe with horror the abominations of Vlad the Impaler who impale to the mendicant monks vengeance and the Transylvanian Saxon bourgeois supporters Mathias Corvin.Se emerged an anti Dracula propaganda intended to justify the abandonment of Dracula by Matthias Corvinus in its fight against the turcs.Matei Cazacu shows that these pamphlets are written without considering the political context prédomine.Est this a way for the author to legitimize the actions of the character, may être.Néanmoins Vlad Dracula is a cruel man who lives in a cruel time when the Saxon law was dominant Because of the impalement capital punishment. The second part of the book draws a parallel between the history and the character of Bram Stoker.L'auteur book the different sources of inspiration that influenced Stoker to write his Dracula.Ainsi Marie Nizet, Belgian writer wrote some years before the publication of Dracula, a book called "Vampire Captain" .Mateî Cazacu dissects precisely ties with both works and with autres.On then disappointed that the Bram Stoker did not inevitably germinated in the fertile esrit its author after a nightmare generated by alimentaire.L'ouvrage poisoning is also studying the phenomenon of vampirism in Romania. This is a fascinating book that gives pride to the history, literature and folklore.
