tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post6881270676592204035..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Merely on account of its retrograde operations - why did I read so much Edgar Allan Poe?Amateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-47946790850133606312009-02-25T23:04:00.000-06:002009-02-25T23:04:00.000-06:00Ma femme adorable told me how to think, or, I mean...<I>Ma femme adorable</I> told me how to think, or, I mean, guided my thinking here. She has shown me specific passages of English Poe and Baudelaire's Poe, perhaps to inspire me to work on my French, so I no longer have to read Poe in English.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-15246107613482839302009-02-25T09:24:00.000-06:002009-02-25T09:24:00.000-06:00Hi Amateur Reader,Re Poe much more readable in Fre...Hi Amateur Reader,<BR/><BR/>Re Poe much more readable in French: (you probably know it and just suspected everybody does) The canonical french translation of Poe is Baudelaire's. Definitly more readable than the original one... un cas d'école, comme on dit chez nous : one of the only instance of transcendantal translation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-49580324888742627962009-02-17T16:53:00.000-06:002009-02-17T16:53:00.000-06:00Boring - oh, no no! Fascinating, actually, and exa...Boring - oh, no no! Fascinating, actually, and exasperating, and ridiculous. Also, sometimes, boring. And all very intructive. Some of Poe's failures have more imaginative value than other people's successes. With Poe, you never know what's coming around the corner.<BR/><BR/>Poe and Dumas - that's an interesting comparison. They're opposites, really. Dumas is a superbly gifted hack with low standards. For Poe, the highest artistic value is originality. Poe only mentions Dumas once, vaguely, but I would guess that Poe would place a high value on the inventions of Dumas, while scorning his clichés.<BR/><BR/>Poe's sense of originality leads to both grotesque failures and unique creations.<BR/><BR/>As a side note, 2,800 pages over two years is only 117 pages a month. A trifle.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-49054186126332189152009-02-17T02:31:00.000-06:002009-02-17T02:31:00.000-06:00I've read "The Black Cat" and "The Raven". I found...I've read "The Black Cat" and "The Raven". I found that both made me confused, both disturbed me a little, and both left me relatively apathetic towards Poe as a writer. This entry thankfully confirms my suspicions. I'm sorry you had to read all that, though... I hope your next project will be friendlier. But seriously... This seems like it must have been deathly boring. 2800 pages? I can barely read that much Dumas (and I love him) without getting a rash!Meytal Radzinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15805413335735169073noreply@blogger.com