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El método del doctor Alquitrán y el profesor Pluma
«-¡Por todos los cielos! -exclamó mi anfitrión, echando bruscamente la silla hacia atrás y alzando las manos--
¡Creo no haber oído bien! No quiso decir eso, ¿verdad? ¿Nunca oyó hablar del erudito doctor Alquitrán ni del famoso profesor Pluma?»
En el centro de Francia, rodeado por un bosque sombrío, se yergue un célebre pero decrépito manicomio. Monsieur Maillard, su director, asegura utilizar un método innovador que ha proporcionado excelentes resultados a los internos. Pero algo misterioso, absurdo, gravita en todo lo que allí sucede; poco a poco se va revelando una realidad insospechada en la que subyace la perfecta ejecución de un plan siniestro.
Con un estilo magistral, que combina con inteligencia la intriga y el humor, Edgar Allan Poe consiguió en «El método del doctor Alquitrán y el profesor Pluma» un cuento perfecto, capaz de mantener en vilo la lectura hasta la última página.
¡Creo no haber oído bien! No quiso decir eso, ¿verdad? ¿Nunca oyó hablar del erudito doctor Alquitrán ni del famoso profesor Pluma?»
En el centro de Francia, rodeado por un bosque sombrío, se yergue un célebre pero decrépito manicomio. Monsieur Maillard, su director, asegura utilizar un método innovador que ha proporcionado excelentes resultados a los internos. Pero algo misterioso, absurdo, gravita en todo lo que allí sucede; poco a poco se va revelando una realidad insospechada en la que subyace la perfecta ejecución de un plan siniestro.
Con un estilo magistral, que combina con inteligencia la intriga y el humor, Edgar Allan Poe consiguió en «El método del doctor Alquitrán y el profesor Pluma» un cuento perfecto, capaz de mantener en vilo la lectura hasta la última página.
33 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1845
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Edgar Allan Poe
7,287 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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January 31, 2019
La verdad es que el contexto en sí ha estado interesante pero lo que es la narración no me ha entusiasmado. Esperaba quizás algo más. Critica muy bien ciertos aspectos en cuanto a los trastornos mentales. Pero me ha parecido predecible y ciertamente machista.
November 7, 2018
4,5/5 estrellas
Lo que me divertí con este relato 😂
Lo que me divertí con este relato 😂
August 24, 2019
Es más un 3.5
March 11, 2025
Instigado por personas de conocimiento, un hombre visita un espacioso pero sombrío manicomio ubicado al sur de Francia. Del director del centro se ha escuchado decir que tiene un ingenuo audaz, ha creado el llamado "método calmante" que consiste en darles a los pacientes ciertas libertades dentro de las instalaciones del plantel.
El director, el Sr. Maillard, recibe con gran entusiasmo al visitante que es también el narrador de esta historia. Recorren el lugar y todo parece en orden hasta que llega el momento de la cena, donde un pequeño altercado dejará en evidencia la verdad que se oculta detrás de las directrices del centro.
El director, el Sr. Maillard, recibe con gran entusiasmo al visitante que es también el narrador de esta historia. Recorren el lugar y todo parece en orden hasta que llega el momento de la cena, donde un pequeño altercado dejará en evidencia la verdad que se oculta detrás de las directrices del centro.
August 7, 2019
Que cuento tan malo
May 31, 2021
Me ha encantado este relato, dije que el ángel de lo estrambótico era mi favorito pero este se lleva 5.0
October 11, 2021
primer cuento que leo de Poe y fue un meeee, inspirado por la pelicula que vi la cual es muy buena y muy recomendable.
November 13, 2024
Uno de los cuentos más divertidos de Poe.
August 24, 2014
Was a little predictable but perhaps I'm beginning to know Poe's work.
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