This contribution focuses on the relationship between the eruption of the Tambora volcano in April 1815, with the exceptional climatic consequences it generated, and the composition of the novel by Mary Shelley. The myth of Frankenstein, on the one hand, is closely connected to ice and mountains, fitting into the dimension of the sublime, and on the other to electricity and fire. The narration ends with the image of a large funeral pyre, emblem of the monster's death and its reunion with the figure of the creator, which evokes a volcanic eruption.
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