Dédale urbain et psychologique ou Le Mandala de l’Homme des foules d'Edgar Allan Poe
Together with such tales as The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, William Wilson and Metzengerstein, to name only some of the best known, The Man of the Crowd belongs to the tales of the double. Nevertheless, although it shares most of the features to be found in all of them, The Man of the...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/jsse, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Français |
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2010
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | Together with such tales as The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, William Wilson and Metzengerstein, to name only some of the best known, The Man of the Crowd belongs to the tales of the double. Nevertheless, although it shares most of the features to be found in all of them, The Man of the Crowdstands apart in that the encounter of the narrator with his doppelgänger is an aborted one, and both protagonists endorse roles that are the reverse of those of their counterparts in the other tales.In the light of oriental - more specifically Buddhist - thought, and bearing in mind the tenets of Eureka, Poe’s ontological Essay on the Universe, the alert reader may realize that The Man of the Crowd fully and faithfully exemplifies the idea, both Eurckean and oriental, of a cosmic, cyclical interaction of opposite forces - Attraction and Repulsion - whose struggle for supremacyis subordinated to time and space, but also and originally to the degree of enlightenment - or of ignorance rather - which underlies the return of all things into Nothingness, and constitutes the sine qua non condition, in The Man of the Crowd, for the narrator and his doppelgänger’s encounter to cometrue. Their labyrinthic pursuit through the London streets, which assumes the pattern and expresses the ethical issues of the Mandala, ultimately stands for the struggle between the narrator and himself, between such conflicting forces fostered within himself as good and evil, light and darkness, peripheric, karmic attachement to the world and the centripetal, compulsive call of Nirvana. |
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