Eureka (Spanish Edition)

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

Se dice que Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) escribió EUREKA en 1847 casi de un tirón, como obedeciendo a un impulso incontenible. Cuando remata su labor, está convencido de haber producido una obra revolucionaria, superior a todas las conjeturas del pasado y del presente acerca del origen y el destino del universo: ninguno de los descubrimientos científicos de la historia de la humanidad se le acerca en importancia. Con todo, como señala Julio Cortázar -prologuista y traductor de esta obra, al igual que de sus "Cuentos", lo que explica la supervivencia y el fascinante atractivo de "Eureka" son sus valores estéticos y espirituales: "Los buenos lectores de este poema cosmogónico son aquellos que aceptan, en un plano poético, el vertiginoso itinerario intuitivo e intelectual que Poe les propone y asumen por un momento ese punto de vista divino desde el cual pretende mirar y medir la creación".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781539889649
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	11/03/2016
Pages:	60
Sales rank:	1,038,459
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.12(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.