After exploring De Sade’s glorification of crime, Thomas Ligotti’s postindustrial nightmares, and Roberto Bolaño’s geographical and metaphysical deserts, Fabio Condemi continues his exploration of evil and the relationship between representation and artistic creation by staging Robert Louis Stevenson’s *The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde*.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
R.L. Stevenson / Federico Bellini / Fabio Condemi / Christian La Rosa
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
R.L. Stevenson / Federico Bellini / Fabio Condemi / Christian La Rosa
© Phocus Agency
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Born of a nightmare that Stevenson hastened to transcribe feverishly, the story of Jekyll and Hyde is made (and written) of the same stuff as nightmares, leaving the reader with a sense of unease mixed with exhilaration.
The obsession with experimentation and the ambiguous power of science, split personalities, and the risks of repression make this novel, published in 1886, a reflection on human nature that remains compelling to this day.
The text’s structure is the fragmented one typical of an investigation: just as the notary Utterson—the true protagonist of the story—the reader, too, follows the trail of Mr. Hyde, of the evil that lurks in plain sight in cities, in human relationships, and in institutions, without ever quite managing to grasp it fully, in a disturbing game of hide-and-seek (hide and seek in English
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