Krokar: izbrano delo

by Edgar Allan Poe, Andrej Arko (Editor)

Delo Edgarja Allana Poeja ne zelo obsežno, čeprav je živel komaj do praga zrelih let. Kondorjeva izdaja jepotemtakem vsiljevala neusmiljenl krčenje. Izbor zanjo je moral upoštevati vsaj tri merila: pomembnost ali sicerjšnjo cvetniško vrednost posameznega besedila, njegovo kratkost in pogostost objavljanja v slovenščini. Tako so izmed pesmi prevedene skoraj vse najbolj znane (in največkrat objavljene v tujih izdajah); tokrat se prvič pojavljajo v slovenščini vse razen treh, ki pa so za to priložnost tudi znova nanovo poslovenjene. Odlomka iz najznamenitejških esejev sta prav tako prevedena vnovič - deloma zaradi nekoliko drugačnega izbora, deloma pa zaradi znova poslovenjenih stihov. Nekatere zgodbe imamo Slovenci že v več knjigah. Tistih je v tem izboru manj; obdržane so skoraj vse doslej prevedene pomembnejše krajše zgodbe, štiri pa so v slovenščini prvikrat. Pisma, ki naj ponudijo bežen pogled v Poejevo zasebnost, so izbrana po osebah, ki so jim bila namenjena, in po kratkosti.

Unknown Binding

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.

For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...

Reviews

[Tilen Dobnik · Rating 3 out of 5]

Edgar Allan Poe je bil pionir in genij, vendar ta izdaja vsebuje kar nekaj del, ki ne spadajo med njegova najboljša, dočim po drugi strani manjka lepo število njegovih ključnih dosežkov. Ne najbolj posrečen izbor, a več kot vredno branja zlasti zaradi nekaterih odličnih kratkih zgodb, med katerimi prednjačita nenadkriljivi mojstrovini Maska rdeče smrti in Izdajalsko srce.