Descripción
Read throughout the world, admired by Dostoevsky and translated by Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe has become a legendary figure, representing the artist as obsessed outcast and romantic failure. His nightmarish visions, shaped by cool artistic calculation, reveal some of the dark possibilities of human experience. But his enormous popularity and his continuing influence on literature depend less on legend or vision than on his stylistic accomplishments as a writer. The tales in this volume include Poe’s best-known and most representative works as well as his masterly «The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.»
Biografía del autor:
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was born in Boston and orphaned at an early age. Taken in by a couple from Richmond, Virginia, he spent a semester at the University of Virginia but could not afford to stay longer. After joining the Army and matriculating as a cadet, he started his literary career with the anonymous publication of Tamerlane and Other Poems, before working as a literary critic. His life was dotted with scandals, such as purposefully getting himself court-martialled to ensure dismissal from the Army, being discharged from his job at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond after being found drunk by his boss, and secretly marrying his thirteen-year-old cousin Virginia (listed twenty-one on the marriage certificate). His work took him to both New York City and Baltimore, where he died at the age of forty, two years after Virginia. –Este texto se refiere a una edición agotada o no disponible de este título.
Boston, (1809-1849). Edgar Allan Poe, poeta, cuentista y crítico estadounidense, consideró la poesía como máxima expresión de la literatura, y a ella dedicó todos sus esfuerzos. Pero la genialidad y la originalidad de Edgar Allan Poe encuentran quizás su mejor expresión en los cuentos, que suelen desarrollarse la mayoría en un ambiente gótico y siniestro, plagado de intervenciones sobrenaturales, representando en buena medida el preludio de la literatura moderna de terror.
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