Chapter 33 Edgar Allan Poe

Perhaps it is because foreign readers cannot understand the special value of Concord writers in the hearts of Americans, so they do not admire these writers.Edgar Allan Poe, however, was an exception.I think he is more respected in foreign countries than in the United States. Take France as an example, and there are still a group of writers deeply influenced by him.Perhaps his biased character and unsatisfactory private life have caused dissatisfaction among Americans, so he has not received the respect he deserves.However, a writer's character and life have nothing to do with readers, readers should only care about his works.Edgar Allan Poe has written the most beautiful poems in America so far, they are like the famous paintings of Venice, and you will be taken away by their beauty just by looking at them.At that moment, your senses are deeply satisfied, so you don't care whether these verses can bring you insights.These poems can give you nothing but beauty, and yet this beauty is unrivaled in the world.In addition, Edgar Allan Poe is also an accurate critic.His analysis of the art of the short story has long guided the creation of many successors.His story is as good as anyone else's.It is well known that his "The Gold Bug" and the series of stories surrounding M. Dupin created a precedent for the detective novel.Since then, the literary world has poured out a plethora of detective stories we love.After Edgar Allan Poe, although a large number of detective novelists have cultivated the land of detective novels and achieved fruitful results, in essence, no one can add anything to the realm that Edgar Allan Poe reached at the beginning. thing.His horror novels and mystery novels may be influenced by Hoffman and Balzac, but Poe is a writer who cares about readers' feedback, so these stories will always go to Wonderful ending.So, they are fully worthy of the prestigious name.His writing style is exaggerated, with a lot of legendary elements; the dialogue of the characters is bombastic, like the characters themselves, not at all real; and the scope of his description is also very narrow.But you have to admit, what he brought us was a unique experience.There are not many books by him, but each one can be enjoyed by people.But there is nothing particularly American in his writing, neither prose nor poetry contains any depth that only an American can write.Therefore, if you want to find the local flavor in American literature, you should continue to search up and down.