El demonio de la perversidad/The Imp of the perverse: Edición bilingüe/Bilingual edition

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

El demonio de la perversidad es un relato corto del escritor estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe del año 1845. La obra trata esencialmente de los impulsos autodestructivos que mueven al narrador, impulsos que el autor identifica con el "demonio de la perversidad". El narrador describe este principio como un agente espiritual que obliga a las personas a hacer cosas por el mero hecho de que no deberían hacerlas. La frase es hoy corriente en lengua inglesa, y se considera que este autor pudo estar en el origen de la misma.

We have a task before us which must be speedily performed. We know that it will be ruinous to make delay. The most important crisis of our life calls, trumpet-tongued, for immediate energy and action. ... It must, it shall be undertaken to-day, and yet we put it off until to-morrow, and why? There is no answer, except that we feel perverse, using the word with no comprehension of the principle. ... [Then] The clock strikes, and is the knell of our welfare. At the same time, it is the chanticleer-note to the ghost that has so long overawed us. It flies-disappears-we are free. The old energy returns. We will labor now. Alas, it is too late!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781507732281
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	01/26/2015
Series:	Biblioteca Cl�sicos Biling�e , #23
Pages:	30
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.07(d)
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was orphaned at the age of three and adopted by a wealthy Virginia family with whom he had a troubled relationship. He excelled in his studies of language and literature at school, and self-published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in 1827. In 1830, Poe embarked on a career as a writer and began contributing reviews and essays to popular periodicals. He also wrote sketches and short fiction, and in 1833 published his only completed novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Over the next five years he established himself as a master of the short story form through the publication of "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and other well–known works. In 1841, he wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," generally considered the first modern detective story. The publication of The Raven and Other Poems in 1845 brought him additional fame as a poet.