Tourist attraction
Monument du Monstre de Frankenstein
Bronze sculpture of Shelley's creature, cast by a local art collective on the spot her novel marks as his first crime.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Monument du Monstre de Frankenstein in Geneva starts on a stormy night in Cologny in June 1816, when a group of bored young writers, including eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley, dared each other to write a ghost story on this very plain. It follows the novel's darkest scene, set right here, and the family servant, Justine Moritz, who is arrested and pressured into a false confession after a locket turns up in her pocket. The bronze figure the Geneva collective KLAT cast here in 2014 stands two point four meters tall, in a hooded sweatshirt rather than a castle laboratory.
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