[HN Gopher] Edgar Allan Poe's America
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Edgar Allan Poe's America
Author : benbreen
Score : 35 points
Date : 2023-10-21 17:03 UTC (1 days ago)
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| 11thEarlOfMar wrote:
| If you're a Poe fan, be sure to check out Tales of Mystery and
| Imagination by Alan Parsons Project:
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| https://open.spotify.com/album/1Z4oBiD0q8rTwWIYrDwsys
| niles wrote:
| And Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix
| osullish wrote:
| I started this last night and quickly lashed through 2
| episodes - really enjoying it. Very it's got a good
| Succession horror vibe to it.
| devjab wrote:
| I had dismissed it based on its trailer but maybe that was
| too rash. I'll definitely give it a chance based on your
| recommend here. Thanks!
| alfanick wrote:
| I was lately disappointed with quality of movies/shows on NF.
| But The Fall off the House of Usher was decently good,
| especially if you know Poe's stories/poetry. Highly
| recommended, nice classic horror with modern twist.
| nomilk wrote:
| Seems disproportionately many writers of the 19th and 20th
| century lived tough (and often short) lives, or at least endured
| hardship of some kind e.g. Wilde, Orwell, Poe. Wonder if it's
| true of writers generally?
| ghaff wrote:
| Many artists in general were probably not very successful
| and/or otherwise had a lot of hardships in their lifetimes.
| Some of them became more recognized later. They're the ones
| you've heard of.
| TulliusCicero wrote:
| Suffering can produce some awesome art.
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| Sometimes I wonder if part of the reason for the US having far
| more success in exporting media worldwide compared to (Western)
| Europe is the relatively greater amount of suffering caused by
| libertarian-ish capitalism and oppression of minorities.
| Certainly it's hard to see American hip hop being the same kind
| of thing -- and thus achieving the same kind of sales --
| without those two factors.
| waveBidder wrote:
| I'd bet more on English being the lingua franca, and the
| sheer size of the States.
| taeric wrote:
| Expand the thought to general lives, and it is probably the
| same? Many lives were tough. In ways that we can and, in my
| opinion, should prevent.
| Exoristos wrote:
| Like being beaten to death if you won't vote for the
| Democratic Party?
| jszymborski wrote:
| Interesting, I always associated Poe with Baltimore.
| paganel wrote:
| Poe was very much loved here in Eastern Europe. I know he was
| loved in Romania, from where I'm from, my dad had a couple of his
| translated volumes in our library, in fact _The Narrative of
| Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_ is one of the first books I 've
| read as a kid (the title seemed interesting, that's why I had
| chosen it).
|
| At a quick search I found this blog-post detailing Poe's
| influence on Russian literature [1], apparently he had been
| translated in Russian since pretty early on, in the 1840s (via
| the French translation, not directly from English). Found this
| part pretty interesting:
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| > "Edgar Poe--the underground stream in Russia." So the Russian
| Symbolist poet Aleksandr Blok noted in his journal for November
| 6, 1911, a topic for a future critical study.
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| [1] https://simonbeattie.co.uk/blog/archives/2151/
| comprev wrote:
| A recent Netflix mini-series based on EAP's writing has just been
| released [0] which might explain his work surfacing due to SEO.
|
| [0]
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_of_the_House_of_Ush...
| nathell wrote:
| Poe's letters (a full collection available from the EAP Society
| of Baltimore, https://eapoe.org/works/letters/index.htm), while
| for the most part very mundane, provide a unique insight into a
| most stormy life.
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