Resultados para "Oval" en Literatura y ficción

El retrato oval es un relato corto escrito por el escritor norteamericano Edgar Allan Poe. Se escribió en el año 1842 y su título originariamente fue La vida en la Muerte. Este texto, que puede ubicarse en la serie dedicada a las musas muertas, se destaca por la sutil condensación de los motivos: una reflexión sobre el arte, una reflexión sobre el amor y la visión alucinada de un objeto mágico. Se ha dicho que el retrato del cuento remite a un retrato en miniatura de su madre que Poe conservó siempre consigo.

"El Retrato Oval" de Edgar Allan Poe es una obra maestra que nos transporta a un mundo de misterio y obsesión. En este relato, la belleza y la tragedia se entrelazan de manera magistral, revelando la historia de un artista cuya pasión por su musa lo lleva a un destino fatal. A través de una narrativa envolvente, Poe nos invita a descubrir los secretos escondidos detrás de un enigmático retrato.

nos cuenta la historia de un hombre herido y su sirviente, que se adentran a un castillo recientemente abandonado, en el que se encuentran varias pinturas, una en particular llama la atención del relator.

"Das ovale Porträt" (engl.: "The Oval Portrait") ist eine 1842 erstmals unter dem Titel "Der Tod im Leben" ("Life in Death") veröffentlichte Kurzgeschichte von Edgar Allan Poe, die das Verhältnis von Kunst und Leben thematisiert. Sie ist einer seiner kürzesten Prosatexte. Der Ich-Erzähler hat sich, nachdem er aus Gründen, die ungeklärt bleiben, verwundet wurde, mit seinem Diener in eine verlassene Burg im Apennin geflüchtet, die nicht nur komplett, sondern prachtvoll eingerichtet ist.

Mein Fieber war äußerst hitzig und langwierig. Alle Heilmittel, die ich mir in den wilden Apenninen verschaffen konnte, hatte ich schon erfolglos angewandt. Mein Kammerdiener und einziger Mitbewohner des einsamen Schlosses war zu nervös und zu ungeschickt, um mich zur Ader zu lassen; überdies hatte ich auch bei dem Zusammenstoß mit den Banditen Blut genug verloren. Da fiel mir ein, dass ich noch ein kleines Paket Opium in meiner Tabatiere bei mir hatte.

"The Oval Portrait" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe involving the disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau. It is one of his shortest stories, filling only two pages in its initial publication in 1842. The tale begins with an injured narrator (the story offers no further explanation of his or her impairment) seeking refuge in an abandoned mansion in the Apennines. The narrator spends his or her time admiring the paintings that decorate the strangely shaped room and perusing a volume, found upon a pillow, that describes them.

The story involves a young woman haunted by the vengeful spirit of a young bride, whose soul had been trapped for decades within the woman's portrait painted by her insane husband.

In The Oval Portrait, Edgar Allan Poe weaves a haunting tale of obsession, art, and tragedy. A wounded traveler takes refuge in an abandoned mansion, where she becomes mesmerized by a lifelike portrait of a beautiful woman. As she delves deeper into the painting’s mysterious origins, the disturbing and supernatural truth behind the portrait begins to unravel. Poe's gothic storytelling masterfully blurs the line between reality and the supernatural in this chilling short story.

The Oval Portrait is a short horror story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842. Our protagonist takes refuge in an abandoned castle and discovers a room with a series of paintings accompanied by a small book describing them. His attention is attracted by an oval portrait depicting a young woman of rare beauty.

Flash fiction from the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. A wounded gentleman, with his valet, breaks into an abandoned chateau in the Appennine mountains. The walls of the bedroom in which they situate themselves are decorated entirely with paintings. The gentleman's eyes fall upon a portrait of a young girl. He reads in an accompanying book the story of the portrait's creation and the fate of the subject caused by the artist's obsession with representing the girl with lifelike perfection.

L'opera narra la vicenda del protagonista, che si rifugia in un castello abbandonato e scopre in una stanza una serie di quadri e un esiguo libro che li descrive. La sua attenzione è attratta da un ritratto di forma ovale che raffigura una giovane donna di rara bellezza. Sul volumetto legge che la fanciulla, innamoratasi del pittore, lo sposò, ma presto si rese conto che costui era già "sposato" alla sua arte, che divenne per la giovane una rivale da odiare...Il ritratto ovale è un audiolibro della collana LibriVivi Palco.

With the Confederate Army firing on Fort Sumter, the Civil War has begun - and an invasion of Washington, DC, from Secessionist Virginia seems imminent. As the population evacuates, the president is in desperate need of men to defend the capital. Lincoln's trusted aide, Adam Speed Quinn, and Senator Jim Lane hastily assemble a motley crew and garrison them in the East Room at the White House. As dawn breaks with no Rebel strike, a single act of violence intrudes within the White House. One of the Frontier Guard lies dead in the oval library, throat slit ear to ear. There is a murderer among them.

Beiläufig blickt der Erzähler der Geschichte aus dem Fenster - und gewahrt ein Monster, das, in grauenerregender Vielbeinigkeit, näher zu kommen scheint.

To his shock, a man discovers the painting of a woman is much, much more than life-like.

A traveler takes refuge in a château where he finds he is surrounded by fine paintings. Unable to sleep he takes refuge in a book. He moves the candelabrum to shed better light upon the book, but when he does so he discovers in the corner of the room and amazingly lifelike painting of a young woman. It is so real, and he is first so startled that he must close his eyes to gather his wits. After contemplating this painting for nearly an hour he discovers a catalog that describes the painting.

The book describes a tragic story involving a young maiden of 'the rarest beauty'. She loved and wedded an eccentric painter who cared more about his work than anything else in the world, including his wife. The painter eventually asked his wife to sit for him, and she obediently consented, sitting "meekly for many weeks" in his turret chamber. The painter worked so diligently at his task that he did not recognize his wife's fading health, as she, being a loving wife, continually 'smiled on and still on, uncomplainingly'.

A mysterious and life-like portrait of a beautiful young woman holds a terrifying and tragic secret.

Auf der Suche nach der verschwundenen Leonie Goron Poe kann sich Poe in Dr. Templetons Haus einschmuggeln. Im Haus entdeckt Poe ein seltsames Porträt in einem ovalen Rahmen. Aber das ist nicht alles. Im Keller-Labyrinth findet er Leonie Goron. Und sie ist nicht allein: in ihrer Gesellschaft befinden sich mehrere grauenvoll zugerichtete Leichen.

Ligeia - Morella -The Oval Portrait are a short stories in the Gothic horror genre by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's short story Ligeia offers the account of an opium-addled narrator who believes that he has seen the resurrection of his beloved first wife, Ligeia, after the death of his second wife, Rowena. Morella by Edgar Allan Poe is about a woman who seemingly dies and gives birth to a daughter who looks just like her. Her husband loves the daughter, but she dies when he names her the same as her mother, implying that mother and daughter were the same person.

In a world where the clash between rival nations ignites the flames of war, Lora finds herself thrust into a whirlwind of unexpected alliances and dangerous secrets. Forged with a singular purpose, she was meant to be the weapon that brings down the Shades' greatest foes, the war-mongering Drakes.