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Bezig met laden... The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and Related Talesdoor Edgar Allan Poe
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. For a book that inspired at least three other books, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a bit of a mess here. ('An Antarctic Mystery'- Jules Verne (1897), 'At the Mountains of Madness' - H. P. Lovecraft (1936), 'Pym' - Mat Johnson (2011)). Published in 1837, Poe's 'Pym' is a bit of a seafaring adventure that runs into Antarctica and what they find there. Even if the footnotes weren't constantly either spoiling the later plot points of the book or pointing out flaws, I would still see some glaring problems here. Maybe this is why this is Poe's only novel and why he kept to short stories. Maybe he doesn't like the longer form. It seemed difficult for him to plot in advance -- though I believe this was published in pieces. But write the entire thing before the first part is published, Mr. Poe! The ending was interesting and maybe it's all the plot holes and problems that inspired the other books. We shall see. I read 'At the Mountains of Madness' years ago and LOVED that one. But I probably would have bailed on this book if I wasn't trying to read them all to get to Mat Johnson's book which I just KNOW will be good. On to 'Antarctic Mystery'... ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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And now I found these fancies creating their own realities, and all imagined horrors crowding upon me in fact'.The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage. But it also goes much deeper, as Pym encounters various interpretative dilemmas,at last leaving the reader with a broken-off ending that defies solution.Apart from its violence and mystery, the tale calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing truth. Layer upon layer of elaborate hoaxes include its author's own role of posing as ghost-writer of the narrative; Pym - his only novel - has become the key text for ourunderstanding of Poe.This edition offers eight short tales which are linked to Pym by their treatment of persistent themes - fantastic voyages, gigantic whirlpools, and premature burials - or by their ironic commentary on Poe's mystification of his readers. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.3Literature English (North America) American fiction Middle 19th Century 1830-1861LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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