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Stevenson Robert Louis: Čudnovat slučaj dr. Jekylla i g. Hydea

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Čudnovat slučaj dr. Jekylla i g. Hydea

Stevenson Robert Louis

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Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

... Jekyll's transformation implies a concentration of the evil that already existed in him, if not a complete transformation. Jekyll is not merely good, and Hyde (despite Jekyll's claim to the contrary) is not merely evil, because just as parts of the unacceptable Hyde exist in the acceptable Jekyll, so too does the halo of Jekyll who abhors the wickedness of his worse half hover over Hyde.
... Books have their destiny, according to that Latin proverb, and sometimes the fate of the author follows the fate of his books. Let's just remember how old Tolstoy left his family in 1910 and went out into the world to die in the room of the head of the railway station, with the clatter of trains that killed Anna Karenina. There is also something special about Stevenson's death in 1894 on the island of Samoa, which in some strange way mimics the theme of wine and the theme of transformation in his fantastic narrative. Before that, he went down to the cellar to get a bottle of his favorite burgundy, uncorked it in the kitchen and suddenly called out to his wife: "What's wrong with me, how strange I feel, haven't I changed my face?"  and collapsed on the floor. A vein in his brain burst and in two hours everything came to an end.    (from the foreword by Vladimir Nabokov)

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