The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe

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The Fall of the House of Usher is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1839. The story begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for his help. As he arrives, the narrator notes a thin crack extending from the roof, down the front of the building and into the adjacent lake. Although Poe wrote this short story before the invention of modern psychological science, Roderick's condition can be described according to its terminology. It includes a form of sensory overload known as hyperesthesia (hypersensitivity to textures, light, sounds, smells and tastes), hypochondria (an excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness) and acute anxiety. It is revealed that Roderick's twin sister, Madeline, is also ill and falls into cataleptic, deathlike trances. The narrator is impressed with Roderick's paintings, and attempts to cheer him by reading with him and listening to his improvised musical compositions on the guitar. Roderick sings "The Haunted Palace", then tells the narrator that he believes the house he lives in to be alive, and that this sentience arises from the arrangement of the masonry and vegetation surrounding it. Roderick later informs the narrator that his sister has died and insists that she be entombed for two weeks in the family tomb located in the house before being permanently buried. The narrator helps Roderick put the body in the tomb, and he notes that Madeline has rosy cheeks, as some do after death. They inter her, but over the next week both Roderick and the narrator find themselves becoming increasingly agitated for no apparent reason. A storm begins. Roderick comes to the narrator's bedroom, which is situated directly above the vault, and throws open his window to the storm.

Über Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe wurde am 19. Januar 1809 in Boston geboren und starb unter nicht vollständig geklärten Umständen am 7. Oktober 1849 in Baltimore. Er war ein bedeutender Vertreter der amerikanischen Romantik und hatte großen Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der europäischen Literatur. Poe war ein Meister in der erzählerischen Darstellung von Horror- und Gruselelementen und trug mit seinen fantastisch-unheimlichen Erzählungen maßgeblich zur Ausprägung des Genres der Schauergeschichte bei. Mit seiner Figur des Detektivs C. Auguste Dupin begründete Poe außerdem den modernen Kriminalroman. Seine Erzählung »Der Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue« gilt als Geburtsurkunde der Detektivgeschichte in der uns heute bekannten Form.


Verlag:

Sheba Blake Publishing

Veröffentlicht:

2017

Druckseiten:

ca. 21

Sprache:

English

Medientyp:

eBook


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