“ at first I saw nothing strange in this. Duplin had agreed with me, with my own thoughts. This , of course; seemed to be quite natural. For a few seconds I continued walking, and thinking; but suddenly I realized that Duplin had agreed with something which was only a thought. I had not spoken a single word. I stopped walking and turned to my friend. “Duplin”, I said, “Duplin, this is beyond my understanding. How could you know that I was thinking of” Here I stopped, in order to test him, to learn if he really did know my unspoken thoughts.
“How did I know you were thinking of chantilly? Why do you stop? You were thinking that chantilly is too small for the plays in which he acts”.
“That is indeed what I was thinking. But tell me in Heaven’s name, the method if method there is by which you have been able to see into my soul in this matter.”
The story “The Gold Bug” is very popular among many readers. The writer himself considered it “ the Ruckiest”. The great popularity of “The Gold Bug”, marked Gervi Allen, is that there is almost absent morbid motives, which prevailed in many other works of Edgar Poe”.[11] And how Alexander Block pointed out thatin Edgar Poe’s stories there were morbid motives connected with hurting state of psychology. “The Gold Bug,” judging by its genre usually is joined the famous detective stories as “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” “The Mystery of Marie Roget” and “The Purloined letter”, the main hero of which is a detective amateur Sh. August Duplin.
The author called these stories “logical stories”, in which the power of logic and analytical wit is displayed. And this logical power is clearly described in “The Murders on the Rue Morgue”, when Duplin calculated the killer. The writer constantly made the reader to be wonder and amazed by Duplin power to think and do right conclusions. He himself was surprised “ I will not say that I was surprised. I was more than surprised, I was astonished. Duplin was right, as right as he could be. Those were in fact my thoughts, my unspoken thoughts as my mind moved from one thought to the next. But if I was astonished by this. I would soon be more that astonished.
One morning this strangely interesting man showed me once again his unusual reasoning power. We heard that an old woman had been killed by unknown persons. The killer, or the killers, had cut her head off, and escaped into the night. Who was this killer, this murderer? The police had no answer. They looked everywhere and found nothing that helped them. They did not know what to do next. And so they did nothing . But not Duplin. He knew what to do. The author shows the sympathy describing his hero. He describe him as “ an unusually interesting young man with a busy, forceful mind. This mind could, it seemed, look right through a man’s body into his soul, and uncover his deepest thoughts sometimes he seemed to be not one, but two people one who coldly put things together, and another who just as coldly took them apart”
Edgar Poe’s essay “The chess automat of Meltrel” was the first work, where Poe showed he as an infallible logic and an acute analytic over amazing the method, which later Sherlock Homes immortalized in his works
Speaking about Edgar Poe’s short stories of about his “Tales of Grotesque and Arabesque” we can’t help mentioning his fantastic stores. His fantastic stories are the model of that fact, how the comic and the serious get with inside one genre. Edgar Poe requires from his reader a little trust, a little fantasy and takes him to the world of cosmic space to the edge of the earth to the mysterious Antarctica and makes him or determine his age, or step back in order to appreciate fantastic wonders of technique of the 19th century.
“Unusual adventure of Hans Pfae” is an original ad amazement fiction, which inspired Jule Verm to create the novel “Five weeks on the air globe” The beginning and the end of the fictions make the reader enjoy himself with humor watching the smart citizen making fun of fool burgomaster and professor. The middle part of the fiction the story of Hans about traveling to the Moon is a serious and scientific adventure story with great details. As a real scientist experimentation, Pal observes his own physical state and behavior of animals, he doesn’t miss any important observation. He tells about different of atmosphere, he knows physics, mechanics, geography and astronomy.
And because of it European decadents called Edgar Poe as “Reckless Edgar”. In this story he shows an erudition of a real scientist, he does scientific prognosis and creates eh adventure such an unexpected, such a new, that it rouses great interest of the reader.
Conclusion
3.1 Edgar Poe’s artistic manner
Summing up I would like to point out Edgar Poe’s artistic manner. Having read and analyzed some of his stories I came to the conclusion that absorbing of narration is one of the clearest features of Edgar Poe’s artistic manner. His reader is always the collaborator of described events. He trembles with impatience when Duplin investigates the place of murder and makes his mathematic conclusions, he bears hunger, cold and fear with the heroes, he suffers all kinds of adventures. Everything that he describes in his own life, with his own experiences and that’s why we may say that his own life is reflected in his works.
Poe developed a theory of composition that he applied to both his short stories and his poems. Its most basic principle was that in so far as short fiction and poetry were concerned the writer should aim at creating a single and total psychological spiritual effect upon the reader. The theme of plot of the piece is always subordinate to the author’s calculated construction of single intense mood in the reader’s or listener’s mind, be it melancholy, suspense, or horror. There are no extra elements in Poe, no subplots no minor characters, that show he madness of deranged first person (I) narrators. Ultimately, Poe took writing to be a moral task that worked not through teacher lessons, but in simultaneously stimulating his readers’ mental, emotional and spiritual faculties through texts of absolute integrily. Poe, moreover, judged others by these same standards. By doing so he is establishing the rules and methods common to New Criticism, the leading school of literary analysis in the 20th century with, its insistence that the text must be interpreted from the critic’s opinions of its author or the suitability of its themes.
Edgar Poe points out the main principle of literary compositions. He defines this principle as follows: “The combination of events and color, which would rather serve to creation of the main effect”, or as he calls it totality effect. He applies luxury and picturesque descriptions, verity usage of expressive contrasts in situations, language, characters, “emotional air” surrounding heroes; the force of monotone.
So, the most characteristic feature of Edgar Poe’s works is the creation of effect, to impress the readers. His artistic manner roused vivid interest of many writers from different countries and different ideological and aesthetic trends.
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[6]Edgar Allan Poe story teller “The Fall of House of Usher” seven stories US. Agency W. D.C. 1997 p36
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[9]Edgar Allan Poe story teller “The Fall of House of Usher” seven stories US. Agency W. D.C. 1997 p124
[10]Edgar Allan Poe story teller “The Murders in the Rue Morge” seven stories US. Agency W. D.C. 1977 p51
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