Mi Viaje Con Byron

John William Polidori (1795-1821) was Lord Byron's personal physician, hired to accompany him on his trip through Europe. His personal diary, supplemented by some letters, recounts his stay with Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and Claire Clairmont during the summer of 1816 in Switzerland. That summer was marked by bad weather (the effect of the eruption of the Tambora volcano), which confined the writers to Villa Diodati and gave rise to long literary evenings. From these emerged the seed of Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) and the story The Vampire, by Polidori himself, considered the first modern vampire story, a character indirectly inspired in this case by Byron.In his diary, Polidori describes Byron's dominant personality and charisma, but also his arrogance and contemptuous treatment of him. The doctor often feels humiliated, which fuels tensions between the two. This is the first time that Polidori's complete diary has been published in Spanish.

John William Polidori (1795-1821) fue un médico y escritor inglés, hijo de un exiliado italiano, conocido por escribir 'El Vampiro' (1819), la primera historia de vampiros en inglés que sentó las bases del arquetipo del vampiro romántico, influenciado por Lord Byron, su paciente y empleador. Tras graduarse en medicina en Edimburgo, viajó con Byron como su médico personal, un periodo en el que escribió su influyente relato. A pesar de su corta vida, su obra tuvo un impacto duradero en el género del terror y la literatura de vampiros.