Publisher's Synopsis
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-It is the story of a horrible revenge, if any is not. What could move the author to his composition? We are, of course, light years away from the great boy who had written steamy romantic poems in which he portrayed an ideal world of enchanted palaces and beautiful ultra-earthly heroines. The evil intelligence, the black humor, the sharp irony, and even the sadism free in the conduct of the avenger Montresor, would reveal in its author, probable although not necessarily (but we have to take into account, we say, the moment and the circumstances in which the story was written), large doses of pain and frustration poorly assimilated, an acute awareness of failure, as well as, perhaps, the will to leave a terrifying subliminal message in the future, and all under a markedly allegorical treatment.For the theme of revenge, for the jester character and some other coincidence, there is another story of the end of his career that is his brother. This is "Hop-Frog," one of the last ones he wrote, and in which a Poe is already tired and snubbed by life and his hardships, and not a little by his critics - those who criticized him and those he himself he had vilified himself of the beautiful- he voluntarily departs from his great artistic and intellectual feats From the invention of the police story and the science fiction story of "The Colloquium of Monkeys and One" and "The Power of Words", with its sensitive metaphysical overwhelming, of the admirable show of horror by the horror they represent "The Cat black "," The truth about Mr. Valdemar's case "," The pit and the pendulum "or" The beating heart "-, to be delivered again, as in" The barrel of amontillado ", to a pitiful one, although in no way clumsy, mock revenge against the world, the only one finally in his hand.
