What is the accomplishment left by Edgar Allan Poe, 'Founder of Modern Detective Novel'?

Edgar Allan Poe , known for numerous works such as " Morgan Town Murder ", " Black Cat ", " Gold Caterpillar ", has been referred to as "Founder of Modern Detective Novel", but a mystery novel such as poetry and book reviews Po's achievements other than that are generally not well known. TED-Ed has released a movie to explain the creative attitude of such Poe and its achievements.

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Edgar Allan Poe, born in 1809 and leaving the world in 1849, is said to be the author of the 19th century. The still portrait photographs still told include a high forehead, blackish hair that looks unhealthy to the bossabosa's black hair, and paws that have dark and dented eyes, so you can see deep intellect and fatigue.

The work of Gothic Horror wrote by Poe was innovative at the time of the 19th century and it will carve its name in the history of literature.

However, even now that the genre called Horror became popular, there is a reason why Poe is being evaluated as one of the great American literary writers.

One of the reasons why Poe is being evaluated is that he showed a thorough type and attitude in literary criticism.

In writing a short story, Poe wrote, "Let it sit in a chair to make it readable at a stroke while resting" "Every word in the works has meaning along" one purpose " I emphasized the two rules.

Po's sticking to "length that you can read at a stretch" and "one purpose that words have" is because Poe emphasizes "unity of effects" in creation. Poe had taken the creative stance of first considering the effect / impression that should be given to the reader and deciding the number of lines and the sound of the word to maximize its effect. In terms of having brought theories and criteria to the world of literary criticism where there were lots of thunderous things at the time, Poe's achievement is great.

In the work Poe explored the tendency of darkness and self-destruction that a person has on the inside.

" Telling heart " announced in 1843 is a story that a sense of "servant" who is a narrator and commits a murder is linked with the sound of the master's heart, which should have died, resonate.

" Lydiaia " announced in 1868 talks that "a deceased wife will take over the body of his wife and get back to life," but at least the narrator who suffered from drug addiction said that "the deceased Liziaa has revived" It is only.

In addition, in the short novel " William Wilson " announced in 1839, the hero who is the narrator is jealous of the same appearance Doppelganger with the same name as himself and turns the blade, but in the end it is an illusion of the figure reflected in the mirror It only ends, it suggests that you are yourself and it ends.

Such a series of methods is called " unreliable narrator ". Originally it is a talker who should talk about the world of the work to the full, but there is even a lie to the reader. Through these declaration tricks , readers will actively think about the world of the work even if it is not.

And making a modern mystery novel is, of course, one of Poe's great accomplishments.

" Murder of the Morg Street " announced in 1841 is a masterpiece that made up the basic form of a detective story passed down to the present age that "a genius-like name detective logically exposes a criminal and a trick from various evidences" .

" Mystery of Mary Roger " announced from 1842 to 1843 is a mystery novel that is said to be a model of the actual murder case for the first time.

"A stolen letter " is said to be a mystery novel of the highest masterpieces that Edgar Allan Poe himself admits.

The common detective of these three works is the name detective C · Auguste · Dupin . "Murder Street Murder" gathers evidence by thorough site verification and develops inference, "Mysteries of Mary / Roger", " easy chair Detective " which unravels all the mystery only with data given without going to the site DuPan showing the style of, it can be said that it is a source of many name detectives, such as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poiro that will appear later.

Poe also talks to the moon with a balloon ......

He wrote a short story of various genres such as a story of hypnotizing a man near the end of the death and keeping it in the gap between life and death .

Furthermore, Poe's not only short stories, but also many poems and book reviews are published is one reason why Poe is regarded as a great writer.

In particular, the story poem " Pearl " released by Poe in 1845 said "A crow that can speak human words appears as a result of a young man who loses a girlfriend and lives in sorrow and repeats" Nevermore (never again) "and the youth's sorrow It is still highly evaluated by the content that it will "caress".

Poe is said to have suffered from alcoholism to escape from his sorrow, losing her mother and her first wife.

Also, most of the high evaluations Poe received were after his death. It is said that Po was disliked from the American literary era at that time because Poo published a considerable dry criticism in the magazine.

In 1849, Pau was found drunk in Baltimore while he was remarried and was found unconscious, leaving the world as young as 40 years old. Poe 's life is filled with "sadness" and "anguish", which can be said to have a great influence on Poe' s work as well. If "pleasure" was giving inspiration to Po, it may have been differently influenced by contemporary writers as well.