Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of NantucketEdgar Poe
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
by Edgar Poe · first published 2026
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…actually read (even though that happened 20 years ago, so the details are fuzzy) and who forever influenced my view on books and how to read and interpret them. I also heartily recommend Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket". I'm not from an English-speaking country so it wasn't required reading for me while in school, but I nevertheless found its no-ending thingie as the quintessence of modern literature. In fact, Eco has…
on “On Unread Books” ↗Poe was very much loved here in Eastern Europe. I know he was loved in Romania, from where I'm from, my dad had a couple of his translated volumes in our library, in fact The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is one of the first books I've read as a kid (the title seemed interesting, that's why I had chosen it). At a quick search I found this blog-post detailing Poe's influence on Russian literature [1],…
on “Edgar Allan Poe's America” ↗…sea. It doesn't take a great deal of effort to imagine some form of land beyond or in that sea. You would be quite a boring and unimaginative person to not wonder about this. Edgar Allen Poe's novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket details a fictional account of what might be in the Antarctic, an unexplored area in his time. We now know that Poe's imagined account is a far cry from the reality of the Antarctic continent, but he…
on “A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas” ↗Poe didn't really write books. He's most famous for poems and short stories. He wrote one novel ( The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket) and published a collection of poems. Not that it matters. Just a bit of trivia. The only thing you need to know is that he's a gazillion times better than Kerouac, who did write books and shouldn't…
on “Egyptologist uncovers hidden messages on Paris’s iconic obelisk” ↗