El reflejo imprevisto. Una lectura de los procesos de mitificación entre Frankenstein de Mary Shelley y El espíritu de la colmena de Víctor Erice

Abstract

The path that is recorded in a line that connects the English novel Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus (1831) of Mary Shelley, work of the nineteenth century, with another work of the second half of the twentieth century, the film The spirit of the Beehive (1973 )) by Spanish director Víctor Erice. This route will not only register one hundred and fifty years of history, but also crosses different artistic disciplines.

The general hypothesis indicates that the novel Frankenstein would be a reflection on the identity of the human being and their ways of being in the world and know it, and it is considered that the film adaptation The spirit of the Beehive manifests the tension between the perception that at the individual level keeps each viewer with the sum of perceptions at a collective level.