De la Vlad Tepes la Dracula Vampirul by Neagu Djuvara

It was 1890 when, during a rainy summer holiday spent with his wife and son in Whitby, Stoker discovered information on a Voivode Dracula and Transylvania in a public library. Yet Wampyr was too revealing, isn’t t? 🙂įurther, Bram Stoker followed the chilling wind that swept through 19th century Gothic literature and made his anti-hero a member of the European aristocracy. With regards to the main character, in the initial Notes Stoker simply named him Count: “ Count’s servants”, “in power of Count,” while in his character lists Stoker named him “Count…” Only at some stage later did the name Count Wampyr appeared.

In the former list the characters were only identified by their occupation. Interesting to know is that Stoker’s Notes include three casts of characters. On Bram Stoker naming his Count Dracula character The common belief is that Bram Stoker took only two years to write his 418 pages, and approximately 161 000 words. How the literary character of Count Dracula took shapeīram Stoker’s earliest dated Notes for his novel Dracula were written as far back as 8 March 1890 ( Dracula was originally published on ). I hope it will be an enlightening and fun read for you. So here we go, looking at Bram Stoker’s notes and at how he portrayed his literary character Count Dracula and comparing them to what historical documents and sources tell us about Vlad the Impaler the man, aka Vlad Dracula, Vlad III, Voivode of Wallachia.

If my scientific background taught me anything, is to research and draw my own conclusions. Like many of you, I know that the opinions are divided between scholars and fans who believe that Stoker used Vlad the Impaler as his inspiration for Dracula, and those who do not. I was reading through the notes Bram Stoker made prior to writing his gothic Dracula novel – the originals should be in Rosenbach Museum & Library of Philadelphia. A reader’s literary comparison between Bram Stoker’s Gothic character Dracula and Wallachian Voivode Vlad the Impaler, aka Vlad Dracula.

De la Vlad Tepes la Dracula Vampirul by Neagu Djuvara