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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849): “El gato negro” y otros relatos fantástico-monstruosos A propósito de la monstruosidad en la literatura de Poe

2016; Unión Matemática Argentina; Issue: 32 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15517/re.v0i32.25009

1852-1568

Óscar Gerardo Alvarado Vega,

Latin American Literature Studies

In this article, based in the monstrosity manifested in some of Edgar Allan Poe's narrations, we try to explain the meaning of the contruction and rise of monstrosity, presented in these events and characters found in the author's narrations. Not pretending to establish in a comparative way between Poe's production and his biography as a writer, the truth is that the tragic events that surround his narrative seems to confuse in some other way his production, with a pesimist position. In accounts like: William , Black Cat, Berenice among others emerges an idea of a monster that surrounds the story or the character's configuration. The plot of the production as the relevant facts of monstrosity in each one of the tales; have something in common: the monster.