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Lo siniestro, el horror y su vida. Edgar Allan Poe
El miedo es una emoción primaria, un mecanismo biológico que nos permite defendernos de aquello que nos amenaza en la realidad. Muchas de las propuestas que se manejan en el cine "de miedo" (thriller), son solamente fantasías que producen escalofríos, sustos y sobresaltos porque se manejan al nivel de la simple emocionalidad. Pero la literatura de horror, y sobre todo la de los grandes maestros, como Edgar Allan Poe, es mucho más que eso, aquí no se despiertan emociones biológicas, sino complejos sentimientos que parecen tener su origen en las zonas más oscuras y recónditas de nuestra propia mente y que por medio de imágenes, que mucho tienen de símbolo y metáfora, aluden a la muy humana preocupación acerca de la existencia y presencia de "el mal" dentro y fuera de nosotros.
En este volumen se presenta una selección de aquellas obras en las que Poe maneja de manera evidente y creativa aquel lado siniestro de la vida que nos mueve al horror, pero también conmueve nuestros sentimientos más profundos, propiciando una saludable catarsis y una reflexión que se orienta al conocimiento de la condición humana, en sus múltiples facetas. En apoyo a dicha reflexión, hemos complementado la presente edición con una sinopsis biográfica y tres ensayos: del propio Poe, de Freud y de Lovecraft, que seguramente enriquecerán la lectura.
En este volumen se presenta una selección de aquellas obras en las que Poe maneja de manera evidente y creativa aquel lado siniestro de la vida que nos mueve al horror, pero también conmueve nuestros sentimientos más profundos, propiciando una saludable catarsis y una reflexión que se orienta al conocimiento de la condición humana, en sus múltiples facetas. En apoyo a dicha reflexión, hemos complementado la presente edición con una sinopsis biográfica y tres ensayos: del propio Poe, de Freud y de Lovecraft, que seguramente enriquecerán la lectura.
446 pages, Paperback
Published November 1, 2012
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Edgar Allan Poe
10k 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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September 17, 2020
Muy buen libro en homenaje al autor y al género. Hay algo curioso en este volumen que, según creo, fue obra de Cortàzar. Sucede que en el relato de "The imp of perverse" la palabra "Coroneer" no està traducida. Es probable sea legado de las obras que hizo para Puerto Rico de la obra de Poe. Por otro lado, los ensayos de Lovecraft y Freud ayudan a un acercamiento màs profundo de la dinàmica del género de horror y sus motivaciones.
October 14, 2020
Un grandioso libro para entender a Poe al tiempo que leemos varios de sus cuentos e historias. Este libro se me hiso corto a pesar de tener casi 450 paginas, lo lei hace como cuatro años. Fue muy apacionante de leer y me quede con ganas de leerlo otra vez cuando lo termine. sin lugar a dudas un magnifico libro del gran Edgar Allan Poe.
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