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Berenice y otros cuentos de muerte y resurrección
Existen personas en esta vida que no están hechas para padecer la luz del día. Estas personalidades nocturnas se maravillan ante lo absoluto de las tinieblas y se esmeran por sondear los misterios que en ella se ocultan. Pero, en el camino, suelen toparse con secretos que se resisten a toda explicación. ¿Es la muerte el final de todo? No lo sabemos, pero hay quienes piensan que el fin de la vida no implica el final de la existencia, que es posible superar las vicisitudes del tiempo y escapar a la sempiterna duda que nos suscita aquello que nos espera después del último suspiro. Desde las profundidades de la tumba y escarbando a través de la tierra para emerger una vez más, nos llegan estos relatos de Edgar Allan Poe, aclamado cuentista estadounidense especialmente reconocido por sus cuentos de terror y por ser el creador del relato policial. En este volumen recopilamos sus más famosos relatos de muerte y resurrección, al igual que los tres cuentos protagonizados por C. Auguste Dupin; el afamado investigador noctámbulo.
328 pages, Paperback
Published April 1, 2019
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Edgar Allan Poe
9,938 books28.9k 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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May 12, 2018
Awesome selection of Poe's tales.
Berenice in my opinion is one of his best tales. Scary, it had censored parts (two paragraphs) for being really terrifying for the time it was first published.
One of the themes in some of these tales, including Mortella and Berenice, is the obsession. When ideas so numb the mind that they take over a kind of second consciousness that covers up actions and memories of the characters - these are extreme cases where obsession becomes a real disease.
Another very interesting point of reflection on these tales is: what we want and what we actually see of reality.
Excellent!
Berenice in my opinion is one of his best tales. Scary, it had censored parts (two paragraphs) for being really terrifying for the time it was first published.
One of the themes in some of these tales, including Mortella and Berenice, is the obsession. When ideas so numb the mind that they take over a kind of second consciousness that covers up actions and memories of the characters - these are extreme cases where obsession becomes a real disease.
Another very interesting point of reflection on these tales is: what we want and what we actually see of reality.
Excellent!
June 8, 2020
Cuentos de Poe, llenos de personajes y entornos lúgubres, destacando los misterios y anomalías de las mujeres y su belleza individual. En momentos se torna lento para de pronto presentar finales acelerados tajando en seco el misterio y la emoción del texto.
January 25, 2014
Este corto libro está dividido en unos cuántos relatos; cada uno de ellos impregnado de ese misterio y terror que caracteriza a Poe.
Su forma de escribir es un tanto compleja, pues el lenguaje y el orden de la escritura no son simples. Pero aún así es un libro altamente recomendable.
Su forma de escribir es un tanto compleja, pues el lenguaje y el orden de la escritura no son simples. Pero aún así es un libro altamente recomendable.
November 8, 2016
Son muy buenos relatos, y algunos me dejaron aterrados, definitivamente me da miedo literal, y son muy buenos
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