TEHRAN (IBNA) -- Gothic novella ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ or ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ (1886) by Scottish author, poet ,Robert Louis Stevenson has been rendered into Persian again and published.
One of the most famous pieces of English literature, the new Persian translation of ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ has been carried out by Mehrdad Vosoughi. Tehrasn-based Qoqnoos Publishing has released it in 228 pages.
Dr Jekyll, a client and a friend of the lawyer Mr Utterson, has willed all his worldly possessions to Mr Hyde. Mr Utterson has heard terrible stories about Mr Hyde, and wants to preserve the reputation of the good doctor.
The lawyer tries to obtain more information about Mr Hyde, a vile, depraved man who has been violent toward helpless, innocent people. Eventually, a letter from Dr Jekyll surfaces which explains his scientific experiments and shows the duality of human nature- a virtuous side and an evil alter ego. Mr. Hyde is the vilest parts of Dr. Jekyll; the side of himself that he refuses to acknowledge because he is afraid and disgusted with it.
Literary genres that critics have applied as a framework for interpreting the novel include religious allegory, fable, detective story, sensation fiction, doppelgänger literature, Scottish devil tales, and Gothic novel.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was also an essayist, and travel writer. His other famous works are ‘Treasure Island’, ‘Kidnapped’, and ‘A Child’s Garden of Verses’. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world.
His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he “seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins.