Ο άγγελος του παράξενου

by Edgar Allan Poe, Δημοσθένης Κούρτοβικ (Translator)

Στον τόμο αυτό των διηγημάτων του Πόε περιλαμβάνονται μερικά από τα λιγότερο γνωστά διηγήματα του συγγραφέα όπως είναι:
Ο άγγελος του παράξενου, Η σφίγγα, Μεσμερική αποκάλυψη, Ο διάλογος ανάμεσα στην Ειράδα και την Χάρμιον, Μέλλοντα ταύτα, Ο διάλογος στο Μόνο και την Ούνα, Η δύναμη των λόγων.

Genres: Classics

127 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

The 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.

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Reviews

[Dimitra · Rating 5 out of 5]

I will say what I always say about Poe, no matter which of his stories/poems I read...
Poe is an artist! Poe is unique!
Poe is mysterious! Poe is scary!
Poe is Poe!!! <3 And I love him!!!
All of his stories and poems give you the chills and you just can't stop reading!!!
If you haven't read any of his work...please do a gift to yourself and go read some!!!

[Hristos Dagres · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ανισοβαρή διηγήματα, αρκετά εκ των οποίων δίνονται με τη μορφή διαλόγου μεταξύ δύο προσώπων (προ ή μετά θάνατον), στους οποίους ο Πόε παρουσιάζει τις φιλοσοφικές, επιστημονικές και μεταφυσικές του απόψεις, σε μία εποχή όπου οι επιστημονικές θεωρίες συνυπήρχαν με τη φρενολογία, το μεσμερισμό και το ζωικό μαγνητισμό.

[IliasValas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Έξυπνα δομημένα διηγήματα σαφούς φιλοσοφικής -στον τομέα κυρίως της μεταφυσικής- στόχευσης, με κάποιες, βεβαίως, από τις στοχαστικές τοποθετήσεις να απαιτούν απαραίτητα τον συνυπολογισμό του τότε πολιτιστικού συγκειμένου.
Ενδιαφέρουσες οι μεταφραστικές επιλογές σε γλωσσικά δύσβατα αποσπάσματα του πρωτοτύπου, παρότι υπάρχουν σημεία όπου το τελικό γλωσσικό αποτέλεσμα προδίδει την ηλικία του.