The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
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Narrateur(s):
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Peter Noble
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Auteur(s):
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Edgar Allan Poe
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“My visions were of shipwreck and famine; of death or captivity among barbarian hordes...”
Edgar Allan Poe’s only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, is a classic adventure story with disturbing supernatural elements that has fascinated and influenced many subsequent writers. It relates the various adventures and misadventures of young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaler called the Grampus. After surviving mutiny, cannibalism and shipwreck, Pym and his last surviving companion sail deep into the uncharted, mysterious Antarctic seas, where they face bizarre creatures, encounter hostile native islanders and, ultimately, the great unknown.
By weaving together elements of the adventure travelogue and the Gothic horror story, Poe skilfully explores the boundaries of human knowledge and morality.
Please note that this story contains racist language and stereotypical portrayals of non-white persons that were typical of the era in which it was written.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic known for his dark, atmospheric tales and haunting poetry. Widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in American literature, Poe helped shape the horror and science-fiction genres and is widely credited with inventing detective fiction in his 1841 short story, Murders in the Rue Morgue. Despite a life marked by personal tragedy and financial hardship, Poe produced a number of enduring classics such as The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Fall of the House of Usher, and since his somewhat mysterious death, he and his writings have had a wide-ranging influence in popular culture. In 1946, the Mystery Writers of America established the annual Edgar award, which honour the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and film.
It definitely had an impact on HP Lovecraft's work, the ending is just as abrupt and unsatisfying as the ending to a Lovecraft story, with an almost comedic or parodic resolution. Evidently, Poe thought up an interesting idea but couldn't figure out how to end the story proper, so instead of coming up with an ending, he left it open for the reader to try and decide how it ends. While the ending itself wasn't the worst thing ever, the ending comes right after introducing something that would have been a good part of the story, but instead we're left with nothing.
If you happen to like explicit and gratuitous violence, you might really like this story, for me it was simply brutal and how senseless that brutality was. A criticism that the novel received when it was published in 1838 and for the next 120 years thereafter. Poe is an important figure in literature, he inspired some of the greats. Like Lovecraft, I think his strengths were in short stories and not in novels or novellas. This is low fantasy in that it takes place in the same world as our own with the bizarre being an intrusive force in the narrative instead of being a common thing. It certainly was written by a mind of the early 19th century when there was no science fantasy with horror among the stars, and too early for Jules Verne to have inspired with his own narratives below the earth and the waves. So unsurprisingly, Poe went with the most mysterious thing he could think of: the oceans.
This would have been better served as a short story in an anthology of short stories expanding on an alternative Earth, but Poe tried to write a novel without coming up with a thorough plan, and while it has very provocative interesting ideas, it's a bit of a poor novel written as if told from the perspective of someone who can't keep his story straight and gets sidetracked easily. If you like Lovecraft (Cthulhu), Bloch (Psycho), Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) or Howard (Conan) then I would say that you might give it a whirl to see where they all got some of their inspiration from. Just know that it's rough and I would say unfinished.
The performer was fine, the story was meh
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