Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems (Amazing Values)

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There is a growing suspicion on the part of the reader that this other William is a doppelganger, especially since he seems to follow the storyteller around the world dogging his footsteps. Despite the cogent rational descriptions, the narrator seems almost to be haunted by his namesake, and is losing his sanity. It is interesting too that the other William seems to be a better version of himself, as if he is acting the part of his conscience. The Gold-Bug” concerns the hunt for a buried treasure, the secret location of which is revealed in a coded map. What is concealed can be discovered, if the code is deciphered and the enigma solved. A logic is required to both encipher and decipher the message. The narrator comments: I also loved the poem Annabel Lee. It's a really gorgeous poem that was a joy to read (and by gorgeous I mean quite melancholic and depressing at times - hey, it's Poe!). I'm not really a big fan of poetry, but I appreciated the simplicity and beauty of this one. The Masque of the Red Death": 4 - read 9/19/2021. Oddly timely considering that the MET Gala still happened while the COVID pandemic rages on...

Immediately after is The Tell Tale Heart. This short story conjures memories of 7th grade literature class. I was scared out of my wits! Then there is The Imp of the Perverse, what reminds me of stream of consciousness writing, merely subtract "murder" and add "alcohol". Of course no discussion of Poe's works would be complete without s mention of The Masque of the Red Death. Just party til you cant party anymore because you'll never outrun death. The Assignation may be the most tragic short love story I've ever read, and I did not expect that from him. Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether was brilliant fun. And then he goes off the deep end with several spiritualist writings. I realize the theosophist movement was in its heyday, but I really did not see a deep connection. Then suddenly I read The Spectacles. Truly I laughed so hard. I had no idea Poe had such a sense of humor considering most of his writing is so morose. The Business Man": 4 - read 1/1/2022. Poe is known for his dark and creepy stories, but every few are light hearted, ridiculous, and funny. This one follows a business man, as the title suggests, as he moves between different professions. At first he's respectable in an honest trade, and then he begins stealing and scamming people, and, as we say, "hustles." Ca în orice operă din seria Dupin, sunt prezente acele raţionamente logice romanţate. Se regăsesc atâtea presupuneri şi deducţii încât cititorul -fie el şi iniţiat- trebuie să citească de două ori paragraful pentru a fixa cum trebuie informaţia. Acest lucru dezvoltă spiritul de "anchetator". Thou Art the Man (1844) is an early experiment in what became known as "detective fiction." It is however not nearly as successful as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", possibly because the standpoint taken is that of the narrator seeking to expose the true murderer, so that the element of mystery is missing. It is a tale of a missing body, murder and betrayal; there is a decaying corpse, a case of vintage wine and a certain amount of sleight-of-hand. And somebody near the end pronounces the devastating words, "Thou art the Man!"Artistul sacrifică totul pentru artă. "Nuvela" (după cum a fost denumită) este de factură romantică şi reprezintă o anomalie a Meşterului Manole în domeniul pictural. "El era o fire pasionată, studios, auster, care, de fapt, se căsătorise dinainte cu Arta. Ea, iubind şi îndrăgind totul; urând doar Arta care-i era rivală. Era pe vremuri un fel de obicei să-ţi baţi joc de aşa-numitele iubiri fulgerătoare. Dar oamenii, atât cei ce cugetă, cât şi cei ce simt adânc şi cu putere, le-au luat întotdeauna apărarea. Într-adevăr, datorită noilor descoperiri în aşa-numitul magnetism etic sau estetica magnetică, pare că sentimentele umane cele mai fireşti şi, prin urmare, cele mai adevărate şi mai puternice, sunt acelea care-ţi încolţesc în suflet ca printr-un fluid de simpatie spontană, că -într-un cuvânt- legăturile sufleteşti cele mai nobile şi mai trainice să fie acelea ce s-au născut dintr-o singură privire."

Thus, Poe questions the role of reason and logic, not just in the process of detection, but in the creation of literature.The Mystery of Marie Roget": 1 - read 1/22/2022. Based on the real murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers in NYC in 18141. DNF. Found it boring, lots of tell don't show. I don't enjoy police procedurals/detective stories that much. In “The Imp of the Perverse”, the narrator murders a friend, only to be plagued by the temptation to confess his crime. The spirit of the perverse condemns us to do what we should not, even if it threatens our own safety. I was aware that Poe specialised in mystery stories and that he had more or less invented the genre of detective fiction. What I didn’t know was that he also wrote relatively self-consciously in a metafictional sense. Not only did he invent a manner of writing, but he explained fairly insightfully what he was trying to accomplish, so that others could follow in his footsteps. Thou Art the Man” is a humorous tale of how the deceased victim manages to confront his murderer with his guilt.

Shall we descend into madness? Shall we be haunted by our own desires? Shall we be consumed by that terrible facet of life known only as death? Shall we cling to what cannot be reanimated? Shall we wish for a return of something that has long been in darkness?O remarcă drăguţă: "Dacă există pe lume o tiranie deplină şi mai presus de oricare alta, e tirania minţii unui copil genial asupra tovarăşilor săi cu o minte mai puţin vioaie." Mi-e temă de meditaţie, căci mi-ar fi foarte lesne să înlocuiesc "copil" cu "om"... E pentru prima dată când văd la Poe, pe lângă latura obscură, latura romantismului suferind, concentrarea pe eul propriu. În "Ligeia" prezintă melancolia neagră a unei iubiri pierdute din pricina sabiei morţii şi aura metafizică a dragostei. The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment. As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles. He derives pleasure from even the most trivial occupations bringing his talent into play. He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension preternatural. His results, brought about by the very soul and essence of method, have, in truth, the whole air of intuition.”

Oricum -că să nu ciopârtesc farmecul lecturii pentru cei ce vor a citi!-, microromanul înfăţişează o aura de mister ce planează în jurul unei crime. Şi, că tot e scrisă de Poe, finalul trebuie să fie desigur zdrobitor (dar fără niciun dram de supranatural de data aceasta!)... Some Words with a Mummy” reprises “The Thousand-And-Second Tale”, only the mummy compares the current world unfavourably with his own world thousands of years before. The stolen letter has been concealed, but all logicał attempts to locate it have failed. Dupin comes to the conclusion that, “to conceal the letter, the Minister had resorted to the comprehensive and sagacious expedient of not attempting to conceal it at all.” The Mystery of Marie Roget” concerns another death about two years later than those in the previous story. Despite the amount of factual evidence available to the press, it concerns itself primarily with “suggestions”:

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The Pit and the Pendulum Along with the seventy-three short stories, essays and a novel, he wrote forty-nine poems which were often fuelled with his alcoholism and difficulty in finding a female partner. His poem Annabel Lee may have been inspired by four different women he was with during that period. His most famous poem is the brilliant Raven “And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting It's interesting to see how pointless some of Poe's early stories were. Trying to read them chronologically enables the reader to look behind Poe's writing process, and it definitely accentuates how much he improved his writing skills in the course of time. I was surprised by what I found in here. Poe was slightly different to what I thought. He is very much shrouded in shadow and the macabre, at least, his more successful stories and poems were. But there were also some very basic stories in here, some that felt like they weren’t even written by the same person. For every great piece of literature, there were two mediocre ones. I disliked the crime stories in particular. The best ones, for me, were the ones where the narrator laments a lost love on the cusp of insanity: these stories were simply beautiful. O scriere etică, cu un caracter de basm (din care lipseşte însă intervenţia supranaturalului), a cărei morală este aceea că n-are nicio relevanţă dacă eşti rege sau "ultimul om de pe pământ". Cu toţii, de la împărat până la plebeu, trebuie să respectăm anumite norme de conduită, norme care ne-au făcut din animale oameni şi, dacă le neglijăm, tindem să regresăm. Ill-fated and mysterious man! - bewildered in the brilliancy of thine own imagination, and fallen in the flames of thine own youth! Again in fancy I behold thee!”