Despite some occasional lengths (related to style, a little outdated, but, after all, give relief to the story)
this book is easy to read; the action is taking place very quickly and never weakens.
Throughout the first half of the book, anxiety rises, signs of vampiric activity multiply, obvious
for the reader, but not for the characters, well drawn in their very modern british 19 ° century.
Despite their skepticism, that of people with a clear mind and devoid of a tendency to superstition, friends J. Harker
go to the obvious: vampires do exist!
The team then has to track down and kill the Count Dracula, a powerful vampire, brilliant and evil, using the
Once the knowledge from ancient superstitions hitherto despised, science (especially hypnosis)
and common sense.
These are the strong bonds of love and friendship between the hero that will allow them to fight evil
(The expression of these sentiments is perhaps the aspect of the most old-fashioned book, the action is much less).
What had struck me most during my first reading, and I felt again this time,
it's really scary atmosphere, although there is ultimately little description "horrible." Many suggested,
with a gothic atmosphere to perfection (cemeteries, mists screeds in frigid nights, bat, wolf packs
howling masses of rats red eyes ...).
The most interesting point to note is the total lack of ambivalence status vampire: one is fundamentally and
inevitably bad. He retained the intellectual skills of its human version, but lost all humanity,
his soul in a word. Only his "death" (with pile beheaded and garlic to the key!) Will allow him to find peace.
It is so far the convictions entered in many of our current novels ("it's too good to be a vampire, beautiful,
strong and immortal ...).
I also noted that the best writers continued to emphasize the probable loss
humanity vampires, and thus their "eternal damnation" (P.Briggs, K. Harrison).
