The black cat

Author's name: Edgar Allan Poe Publisher: Dar Al-Adab for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2018 Literary classification: Short story collection Brief about the book: The character of Edgar Allan Poe appears in the brightest of his simple poetic inner self. He is cheerful, emotional, spiritual in inclination, gentle at times, a devil at times, like a spoiled child. As for love, his wife is the only woman he loved with true, everlasting love. So, in Poe's stories, love is not in the pure sense of the word. Perhaps he believed that prose is not a language on the level of this extraordinary emotion that almost impossible to express. He had a unique, captivating personality, distinguished like his crown, with an endless touch of melancholy. And the imagination of Edgar Allan Poe is that spiritual energy. The reader enters his world as one enters a whirlpool, calmly and without violence. His asceticism surprises and leaves the mind alert. At first, we feel that there is something sublime. Then gradually, his story's pleasure lies in the deception of the mind, a deception that is unnoticed, in an unexpected perception, in a bold hypothesis, in months among the pitfalls of nature — all of this occurs in a strange mixture of bizarre spiritual energies. And as the reader is united with this dizziness, he is compelled to follow the author in his captivating storytelling. No one has spoken with more enchanting magic than the magic of his talk about exceptions and paradoxes in human life and nature. This person who crossed the rugged heights of art, dived into the depths of human thought, and discovered, through his stormy life that never calmed, new curiosities and unknown forms. To astonish the imagination and quench the minds forever hungry for the ropes, this person died on a bench in the street, in 1849, at the age of thirty-seven.