The Imp of the Perverse

This is one of the more structurally unusual of Poe's tales. And that's saying a lot! It begins as an essay in which Poe describes the impulse to do wrong precisely because we know it's wrong. But wait, you might say. That's crazy! People are rational! They'd never do that! This is what Poe called "......more

Relato que se adentra en la mismísima psique humana. Empieza como si fuera un estudio filosófico de la conducta humana y acaba revelándonos el sentido final de esa reflexión. A story that goes deep into the human psyche itself. It begins as if it were a philosophical study of human behavior and ends......more

- قصة تبدأ بعرض على شكل مقالة في مفهوم الإنحراف، وتنتقل الى قصة قتل بحرفية عالية، من اجل ورثة ما، ثم يستفيق الضمير ويبدأ بقرع الأجراس فتستيقظ النفس اللوامة، فإعتراف فسجن ثم موت محقق لاحقاً.........more

I will just come out and say it. I have a crush on Edgar Allan Poe. Can one blame me? The mind of this man was amazing. I had never read this short story of his even though I read a lot of Poe as a kid . I am reading now a book with just about almost every story he’s ever written in it, and I’m attempt......more

Unique perspective on that which leads us astray - Poe has the unique gift of making the logical seem confused; we become lost in his reasoning and must follow him as guide out of the darkest regions of our soul.......more