Ackroyd Peter: Čovjek koji se nije smijao

Name: Čovjek koji se nije smijao
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Author: Ackroyd Peter

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Author: Ackroyd Peter
Publisher: Šareni dućan
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Condition: Vrlo dobro
Code: 56281

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Čovjek koji se nije smijao

Ackroyd Peter

Summary

Peter Ackroyd: The Man Who Didn't Laugh

Biography of Edgar Allan Poe

Perhaps more has been written about Poe than about any other writer, and the reason we singled out this one among the many biographies lies primarily in the measured approach of its author, the famous biographer Peter Ackroyd, who wisely weighs everything Poe's (mostly literary) virtues and (mostly non-literary) faults. Ackroyd gives us a unique insight into Poe's life, whose personal story turns out to be more chilling and harrowing than his most gruesome and harrowing narratives. Drunkenness and gambling, along with eternal poverty, and the constant torn between debauchery and attachment, misunderstanding and self-awareness - all these are pebbles of the mosaic of an incredible psyche that is sad in its non-literary life, but also magnificent in its literary achievements.
By general judgment, Poe was the forerunner of numerous upcoming directions: symbolism, surrealism, avant-garde, postmodernism... but also crime, horror and science fiction! He is a writer with an immeasurable legacy, decades ahead of his time! Although, especially after the publication of The Raven, he was often praised during his lifetime, his (literary) reputation only began to grow intensively after his death, and to this day there are probably no fans of the written word or fellow writers who did not glorify and respect him - let's mention here only Yeats, who claimed that Poe "certainly was the greatest American poet" and Tennyson, who described him as "the most original genius that America has given".

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