Cathy Bernheim - Mary Shelley

At 18, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, a masterpiece of Western literature that has fascinated literary and cinematic posterity.

It is in the shadow of the legendary monster that Cathy Bernheim reveals the troubled life of the author, demystifying the portrait of a timid wife inspired only by the genius of Percy B. Shelley.

From her escape from her paternal home to her journey through Italy and the genesis and reception of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley intertwines the biography and work of a writer as fragile as she was brilliant.

Mary Shelley knew how to metamorphose the hideous specters of her tragic life and her time, gradually transformed by the general evolution of science, into the atrocious figure that populates a world where, like ours, good is often just a mask for evil.