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Racconti di enigmi
Nei Racconti di enigmi, che Poe definisce racconti di raziocinio, egli libera la sua maestria di narratore nel costruire intrecci che solo una lucida logica è in grado di decifrare. In questa raccolta spiccano Gli assassinii della Rue Morgue, dove intuizione e concatenazione deduttiva e induttiva portano alla soluzione del racconto, non privo di spunti macabri e orripilanti; Lo scarabeo d'oro, dove un intreccio di motivi, ora di mistero ora di raziocinio, tra oscuri accadimenti e illuminazioni razionali, viene risolto risolvendo un crittogramma e l'enigma che ne scaturisce; o, infine, La lettera rubata, dove il detective-poeta Dupin risolve un caso che si rivela estremamente semplice non appena si porta sul piano delle somiglianze analogiche.
- GenresShort Stories
329 pages, Hardcover
Published July 1, 1996
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About the author
Edgar Allan Poe
9,796 books28.7k followersThe name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
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September 7, 2018
Poe, nonostante la vita infelice e costellata di lutti (la morte sarà infatti sempre presente nelle sue opere) era un artista geniale e questi racconti mostrano tutto il suo immenso talento.
May 12, 2020
**** Lo scarabeo d'oro, La lettera rubata
July 24, 2015
Contiene:
✓L'isola della fata
✓I delitti della Rue Morgue qui tradotto come Gli assassinii della Rue Morgue
✓Tre domeniche in una settimana
✓Il mistero di Marie Roget
✓Lo scarabeo d'oro
✓Una storia delle Ragged Mountains
✓Sei tu il colpevole qui tradotto come Sei stato tu!
✓La lettera rubata
✓Quattro chiacchiere con una mummia
✓Mellonta Tauta
✓L'incomparabile avventura di un certo Hans Pfaall
Ho letto solo quattro dei racconti presenti in questa raccolta poichè gli altri li avevo già letti
✓L'isola della fata
✓I delitti della Rue Morgue qui tradotto come Gli assassinii della Rue Morgue
✓Tre domeniche in una settimana
✓Il mistero di Marie Roget
✓Lo scarabeo d'oro
✓Una storia delle Ragged Mountains
✓Sei tu il colpevole qui tradotto come Sei stato tu!
✓La lettera rubata
✓Quattro chiacchiere con una mummia
✓Mellonta Tauta
✓L'incomparabile avventura di un certo Hans Pfaall
Ho letto solo quattro dei racconti presenti in questa raccolta poichè gli altri li avevo già letti
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews