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Picaza, Rolando Costa
La narrativa breve en Estados Unidos : literatura, artes y
ciencias sociales / Rolando Costa Picazo y A1mando Capalbo.
- 1a ed. - Buenos Aires : BM Press, 201 O.
408 p. ; 17x15 cm.
ISBN 978-987- 1500-09-3
1. Estudios Literarios. 2. Artes . 3. Ciencias Sociales.
I. Capalbo, Armando 11. Título CDD 801
ISBN: 978-987-1500-06-2
Diseño de Tapa;
Juan C. Moreira
Diagramación e impresión:
BMPress
Impreso en Argentina
Printed in Argentina
1\.les of rhe Gn.1resque i.lnd A..rabesque
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La narrativa breve en Estados Unidos Literatura artes y c1enc1as sociales
[No word spoke the deliverer. But the Marchesa! She will now receive her
chiU-she will press it to her heart-she will cling to its !itt!e form, and
smother it with her caresses. Alas! another ' s arms have taken it from the
stranger-another' s arms have taken it away, and borne it afar off,
unnoticed, into the palace! And the Marchesa! Her lip-her beautifal lip
trembles: tears are gathering in her eyes-those eyes which, like Pliny 's
acanthus, are «so.ft and almost liquid.» Yes! tears are gathering in those
eyes-and see! the entire woman thrills throughout the soul and the statue
has started into lije! The pallor ofthe marble countenance, the swelling of
the marble bosom, the very purity of the marble feet, we behold suddenly
ftushed over with a tide of ungovernable crimson, and a slight shudder
quivers about her delicate frame, as a gentle air at Napoli about the rich
si/ver filies in the gras?.]
La narrativa breve en 1::.staaos l.Jr 11ú 0 S . ,_,L..:, c. l- •• · - · -
[I cannot, far my soul, remember how, when or even precise/y where, I first
became acquainted with the lady Ligeia. Longyears have since elapsed, and
my memory is feeble through much sujfering. Or, perhaps, I cannot now
bring these points to mind, because, in truth, the character of my beloved,
her rare learning, her singular yet placid cast of beauty, and the thrilling
and enthralling eloquence of her low musical language, made their way
into my heart by paces so steadily progressive that they have been unnoticed
and unknown. Yet I believe that 1 met her first and mostfrequently in some
large, oíd, decaying city near the Rhine. Ofher fomily-1 have surely heard
her speak. That it is ofa remotely ancient date cannot be doubted. Ligeia!
Ligeia! Buried in studies ofa nature more than ali else ada.pted to deaden
impressions ofthe outward wor/d, it is by that sweet word alone-by Ligeia-
that I bring befare mine eyes in foncy the image o/her who is no more. And
Rolando Costa Picazo y Armando Capalbo
now, while I write, a recollection flashes upon me that I have never known
the paternal name of her who was my fiend and my betrothed, and who
became the partner of my studies, and final/y the wife ofmy bosom. Was it
a playfal charge on the part of my Ligeia? or was ita test ofmy strength of
ajfection, that I should institute no inquiries upon this point? or was it
rather a cap rice ofmy own-a wildly romantic ojfering on the shrine ofthe
mostpassionate devotion; I but indistinctly recall the fo.et itself-what wonder
that I have utterly forgotten the circumstances which originated or attended
it? And, indeed, ifever that spirit which is entitled Romance-ifever she,
the wan and the misty-winged Ashtophet ofidolatrous Egypt, presided, as
they tell over marriages ill-omened, the most surely she presided over mine.]
c:1 et d 1 mobiliario»:
Hay un par de ejemplos de «La u osoua e
· , de cualquier clase de
La abominación de las flores, o la rep resenracwn , . d l
. . d b , l d d
obJet0s co nocidos no e enan ser to era as en r
t o de los hm1tes e a
l
. . . ic b l · ·
cnsnandad. Por cierto , las a 10m ras, os corunaJes,
los tapices las te as
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. d · , d b 'an estrictamente
para di vanes y cualquier otra te1a e tapicena e en
tener arabescos.
Las paredes están recubiertas de un papel brillante de cono gris plata,
decorado con pequeños arabescos color carmesí, aunque m ás tenue q ue
el que prevalece en otras partes.
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concepción q ue daría na • .
. c1m1ento aJ si b 1.
aspira a la condición de la música l1"b mdaod1smo francés y a la poesía pura, que
em bargo, el ·intento por clas·c-. ' era e la m aldi c1on
· ' d e la racionalidad s·
lrlcar sus cue . • in
contra de su adoración por la Belleza ·Antos e imponerles una etiqueta iba en
para poder alcanzar la glo . > . < caso estaba condenado a contradecirse
na.
Notas
1 Hemos consu ltado Tindall, George B, & David E. Shi, America. A Narrative History. New York &
London: W. W. W. Norton and Company, 1989.
2 Meyers, Jeffrey. Edgar Afian Poe: Hls Llfe and Legacy. New York: Cooper Square Press, 1992: 113.
3 El primer tomo incluye «Morella•; ■ Lionizing• , •William Wilson• , •The Man that Was Used Up•, «The
Fall of the House of Usher•, •The Duc de L · omelette• , 11 MS Found in a Bottle•; «Bon-Bon•; «Shadow•;
•The Devil in the Belfry,; •Ligeia•: •King Pest•; •The Signora Zenobia•; y •The Scythe of Time• (luego •A
Predicament• ). El segundo contiene ■ Epi manes• (luego •Four Beasts in One• ); •Siope, (luego ■Silence• );
•The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall• ; •A Tale of Jerusalem•: •Van Jung• (luego
■ Mystification•): ■ Loss of Breath•; ■ Metzengerstein• ; •Berenice,; •Whythe Little Frenchman Wears His
Hand in a Sling,; •The Visionary• (luego• The Assignation• ); y• The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion• .
4
Pollin & Hansen, The German Face of Edgar A/Jan Poe, Columbia, South Carolina: Camden House,
1995.
5 En The Works of Edgar Afian Poe. Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore. En http:/ /www.eapoe.org/