The archetypal vampire myth is refreshed for a modern audience in this narrative of an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac and the charismatic and powerful vampire Lestat who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. In Louis's first-person confession to a skeptical boy, this novel transforms the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and human figure. The life of immortal Lestat, raised with a deep Catholic faith, provides a background for the novel's philosophical discussions of the nature of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of human perception. La mitologi a del vampiro es reinventado para lectores del siglo 20 en esta historia de Louis Pointe du Lac, el duen o de una plantacio n en el Louisiana del siglo 18, y el vampiro poderoso y dina mico Lestat quien adopta a Louis como disci pulo. El voz de Louis narra la novela, y este punto de vista trasforma el vampiro de un monstruo a una figura simpa tica, seductiva, y humana. La vida de inmortal Lestat, quien tiene profunda fe cato lica, provee una arena para discursos filoso ficos de la natura del malo, la realidad de la muerte, y las limitaciones de la percepcio n humana.
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