Filosofía de la composición

by Edgar Allan Poe

En este ensayo genial, Edgar Allan Poe nos invita a la cocina de su oficio. Nos guiña un ojo para contarnos cómo escribió El Cuervo, uno de sus poemas más aclamados, y propone caminos generales para cualquier autor, pero haciendo referencia a sus propias decisiones cuando intentó lograr el efecto poético con esta obra. Poe define este efecto como la posibilidad de generar significados específicos para cada lector, sin que se agote nunca el texto original.

14 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 7, 2019

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

[Anderson Cubillos]

Excelente ensayo, una joya para quien quiera iniciarse en el mundo del relato corto. Aquí Poe demuestra porque era un genio en su arte, y deja ver lo inteligente y metódico que era al realizar su trabajo.

[Mariana]

Este enseauo me pareció interesante. Lasnprimeras dos páginas algo lentas, no entendía a qué punto quería llegar. Después todo se aclara y da una perspectiva interesante, sobre cómo construir lo que queremos contar.

Aunque se enfoca ennpoemas, bien podríanaplicarse a otros formatos, como el cuento por ejemplo.

[Puri]

Poe se adelanta a los filósofos que tratan la estética del efecto y la construcción del relato literario y el poema, abarcando desde lo lingüístico (material) hasta lo ideal, lo puramente literario, en este gran ensayo; su poética

[Gabiota]

Muy buen ensayo, me encanta ver como trata de romper la idea de la inspiración.

[Patricia C.G]

Muy buen ensayo, aquí se presenta parte de lo que hay detrás de la creación literaria. Sus pasos, complementos, Metas, formación. Excelente

[Shío López]

Poderoso

[Elliot]

7'5 Molt llest però hater de la novel•la???

[Rodrigo Magro]

Grax tío Edgar