Œuvres en prose

by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire (Traduction), Yves-Gérard le Dantec (Éditeur)

Né à Boston en 1809, orphelin adopté par une famille de Richmond, Edgar Allan Poe est aussi brillant dans les études qu'aberrant dans ses rapports avec autrui et sa vie amoureuse. Alcoolique invétéré, il est à la fois journaliste, poète et le plus singulier des conteurs fantastiques. Il vit tantôt à New York, tantôt à Baltimore, où il meurt en 1849.

Ce volume contient :
 • Dédicace
 • Lettre à Maria Clemm par Charles Baudelaire
 • Histoires extraordinaires
 • Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires
 • Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym
 • Euréka
 • Histoires grotesques et sérieuses

Né à Paris en 1821, Charles Baudelaire publie ses premiers poèmes intitulés Les Fleurs du Mal en 1855 dans la Revue des Deux Mondes. C'est en 1857 que paraît le volume. La même année l'auteur et son éditeur sont condamnés à des amendes et à la suppression de six poèmes. La deuxième édition ne paraîtra qu'en 1861, six ans avant la mort du poète.

1184 pages, Leather Bound

Published January 1, 1951

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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[Jean-Pascal · Rating 4 out of 5]

L'étrangeté des nouvelles finit par emporter dans une réalité subtilement décalée. En revanche, j'aurais souhaité un appareil critique plus étoffé.