Kara Kedi

by Edgar Allan Poe, Cemre Naz Öztürk (Translator)

“Eşim birçok kez kedinin beyaz tüylerini göstermişti. Bu beyaz tüyler kediyi bir zamanlar vahşice katlettiğim hayvandan ayıran en net özelliğiydi. Başta dikkatimi çekmemişti. Lakin zamanla bu tüyler gözümde belirli bir şekle bürünmeye başladı. Bu figür, tüylerimi diken diken eden, beni nefrete boğan, korkudan deliye döndüren, olmaya yeltendiğim canavardan kurtulmak istememe sebep o korkunç şey; bir darağacıydı!”

Aslından, dilimize özenle çevrilen bu kitapta Edgar Allan Poe’nun beş öyküsü okuyucusuyla buluşuyor.

Genres: Fiction, Classics

84 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 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

[Gazel · Rating 5 out of 5]

(audiobook)
yemek yaparken bitirdim. ürperdim…

[Kübranur ÖZTÜRK · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ürpertici

[Kafamdaki Makine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Betimlemeler, dil ve öykü bu kadar mı iyi olur? Oluyor işte olması gereken de bu. Baştan sona kadar hiç bitmesin isteyeceğiniz bir öykü. Sanırım bu öyküye AllanPoe’yu bu denli iyi yapan şeyleri çözdüm, vurucu hakikatli ve bağlayıcı. Nefes bile almadan dinledim. Herkesten bir parça vardı içinde. Ruh hali ise harikulade.

[Mer ve Ötesi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gariptir kısa kısa öyküler olmasına rağmen sanki 1000 küsür sayfalık bir roman bitirmişim hissi veriyor. Nedense yoruluyorum bu öyküleri okurken. Rehavetten çok kasvet var. Korku filmi içimdeymişim gibi hissettim nedense.

[Salim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Karantina günlerinde okudum. Ağır bir dili var. Ben beğenmedim. Zor sabır bitirdim kitabı, neden böyle oldu bilmiyorum. “Kuyu ve sarkaç” kitabını aldım ancak şimdi okumayacağım.

[Damla Akdeniz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ağır bir dili yok,hikayelerin sonları ilgi çekici ben beğendim

[Murat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Agir bir dili var

[İlknur · Rating 3 out of 5]

Poe'nun biraz abartilan bir yazar olduğunu düşünmeye başlatan kitap. Yine de bir şans daha vereceğim.

[Ezgi · Rating 3 out of 5]

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