El misterio de Marie Roget

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

Es la segunda narración en la que aparece el detective Auguste Dupin. Está basado en la tragedia real de Mary Cecilia Rogers sucedida en Nueva York. En el relato, la asesinada cambia su nombre al de Marie Rogêt y Poe convierte Nueva York en París. Mary Rogers era una atractiva vendedora de cigarrillos y su crimen nunca fue resuelto del todo; en el caso de Marie Rogêt, el personaje "ficticio", se sugiere que el asesino era un marinero desechándose asimismo la especulación de la policía respecto de que Marie fuera víctima de una pandilla; sin embargo, el mismo Poe evita anunciar que acaso haya resuelto el caso de la vida real aunque algunos contemporáneos suyos vieron en el relato precisamente ello, un intento de mayor notoriedad por parte del escritor norteamericano al buscar dar solución al crímen de Mary Rogers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781514621509
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	06/19/2015
Series:	Biblioteca Edgar Allan Poe
Pages:	76
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.18(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.