Huset Ushers undergång och andra noveller

by Edgar Allan Poe, Bertel Gripenberg (Translator), Anna Pyk (Translator)

Edgar Allan Poe är inte bara den moderna detektivromanens fader, med berättelser som »Morden på rue Morgue« och »Det försnillade brevet«, där Auguste Dupin löser mysterier med sin logiska slutledningsförmåga - även hans gotiska skräckberättelser har blivit stilbildande. I denna volym samlas Poes mest berömda historier: »Huset Ushers undergång«, »Den svarta katten«, »Brunnen och pendeln«, »Guldbaggen« och många fler, samt avslutningsvis den ödesmättade dikten »Korpen«. Poes noveller är lika originella som bisarra och trollbinder än i dag med sin blandning av skönhet, fasa och förundran. Begravda hemligheter kommer till ytan medan annat - och andra - dras ner av själens malströmmar.

EDGAR ALLAN POE föddes i Boston 1809. Efter korta försök inom universitetsvärlden och militären började han verka som litteraturkritiker och författare. Han debuterade med romanen Gordon Pyms äventyr [1838], men det var i novellerna som Poes sällsamma stil verkligen kom till sin rätt. Han dog i Baltimore 1849.

351 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published May 1, 2022

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

[Skunke · Rating 3 out of 5]

From reading this book through the spookiest of months, I have learned that Edgar Allan Poe shalt not be translated.
So, the highs in this book were REALLY high. The Black Cat, M.S: Found in a Bottle, The Premature Burial, The Pit and The Pendulum, The Cask of Amontillado and The Murders in Rue Morgue were all really good and I loved every single one of them to bits, however, the rest was extremely meh. Some of them were soldi 3.5 and 4 stars, but some were incredibly bad. Thou Art The Man and The Gold-Bug especially. The translation lost a lot of what makes Edgar Allan Poes writings so incredible. However, it is quite a daunting task to translate the father of detective literature and the master of the macabre.
This gets a solid 3 out of 5. Not the best, it had a lot of lows, but a lot of highs as well.

[Martin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Väldigt varierande kvalité från novell till novell, men när de når sina höjder kan de nå riktigt högt. Tyvärr varierar även översättningarna i kvalité och Poe ska nog helst läsas på originalspråk om man har möjlighet till detta.