Conversación con Una Momia

by Edgar Allan Poe

Breve charla con una momia es una antologia de algunos de los relatos mas conocidos de Edgar Allan Poe, uno de los autores clave dentro de la evolucion de la novela gotica y de horror en el siglo XIX y de gran influencia en varias generaciones de escritores posteriores.

54 pages, Paperback

Published November 2, 2017

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

[Iloveplacebo · Rating 1 out of 5]

De lo peor que he leído de Poe.
Es una pena, porque es una gozada leerle, pero esta historia... NO!

[Haizea ✨⭐ · Rating 1 out of 5]

Sinceramente no me ha gustado nada de nada. No me ha transmitido nada e incluso me ha parecido aburrido.

[Paloma orejuda (Pevima) · Rating 1 out of 5]

Pues... no me ha gustado.
Es el segundo relato de Poe que me defrauda (el primero fue el del amontillado). Es muy aburrido, no pasa nada. Me dio la sensación de que en este Poe quiso cambiar de estilo y hacer algo gracioso... o a lo mejor, fui yo que lo entendí todo mal.
Pero lo cierto es que fue tedioso, insulso, sin gracia, terror ni nada...

En fin 1 estrella y gracias.

[Carolina Echeverría · Rating 4 out of 5]

Este relato corto de Edgar Allan Poe me pareció muy interesante y diferente, porque aunque tiene ese tono oscuro e irónico tan característico del autor, en esta historia hay también una crítica divertida hacia la ciencia, el progreso y en especial a la arrogancia humana.

[Shainy M. Rivera · Rating 4 out of 5]

Inusual, extraordinaria y entretenida.

Algo no tan común de lo que suelen ser sus escritos, sin embargo, Edgar Allan Poe, logró el disfrute de este cuento. Sin duda, lo hizo de nuevo.

[Roxana · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another story finished. This time about a group of scientists who decide to study the remains of an ancient Egyptian mummy. Nothing strange that far... but suddenly the mummy comes back to life and that is when they start a strange interview with the old Egyptian...

[AdDi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quizá no lo que se acostumbra leer de Poe, pero entretenida y hasta cierto punto, divertida.

[Andrés Quintero · Rating 3 out of 5]

“¿cuándo se vieron cumplidas las esperanzas humanas?”

[Nadia Erguía · Rating 4 out of 5]

El final jajaja estuvo bueno 😁

[Freg♡ · Rating 5 out of 5]

me parto el culo que cachonda la momia xd

[Paolo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Entretenida, curiosa, está bien, se nota la sátira y la parodia.
Es curioso que el protagonista mencione a la hora de embalsamarse que quiere esperar un par de siglos a ver quien es presidente en 2045, ya se lo contaré yo cuando llegue, Poe.

[Zammy Chavira · Rating 3 out of 5]

La verdad, me a causado mucha gracia como, de la sorpresa, la platica se convirtió en una lucha de que época era superior. Sin embargo, no creo que sea de sus mejores historias. Berenice sigue siendo mi favorita.

[Mari · Rating 3 out of 5]

2'5

[jessica✿ · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5⭐
Son casi las 3am y esta historia me entretuvo bastante, me divertí demasiado

[Kitty · Rating 1 out of 5]

1.5/5 ⭐️

[M. Mar · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lo único que me gustó fue el final 😬.

[Eyser · Rating 1 out of 5]

De lo peor que he leído de Poe.
Es una pena, porque es una gozada leerle, pero esta historia... NO!

[salchupup · Rating 2 out of 5]

2 estrellas.

Ñe, está medio entretenido. Lo mejor, el final.

[Sergio Espinoza · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un relato con entretenidas descripciones, pero pocos elementos lúgubres caractericos de Poe.

[Melyssa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick read. One must say Poe knew how to write mystery mixed with wit and unexpectedly humourous stories altogether.