Julio Cortázar
reading books devoted to Poe's most notable in much of the twentieth century can see two trends. The first aims to bring the criticism of his work to personal circumstances and psychological that may be conditioning, stress and, therefore, clinical studies of "case Poe" in search of an understanding of his work. Edward Shanks has reported better than no one is inclined to the personal, and demanded a greater interest in Poe's work in its textual level only, as the literary event. Nothing better because (...), which provide a critical intention primncipalmente centered in the texts themselves and intended to provide the reader with a commissioning environment supportive of their personal estimate of the meaning and value of these texts.
The second trend reflects a certain underestimation of poetry and literature of Poe. On the one hand, this attitude is a necessary return to equilibrium after avalanche indiscriminate exaltation and praise (from France largely because of the profound influence of Poe on Baudelaire and the Symbolists). On the other hand, however, this coldness, paradoxically visible in the excitement of research, derived from a reprehensible attitude: to ignore the profound presence of Poe in the literature is a more important fact that the weakness or demerits of a party of his work. Aldous Huxley overboard when a neat variation on the bad taste of Poe, exemplify it with passages of his most famous poems, one wonders why these poems are present in his memory and his irritation when so many other forgotten sleep impeccable for him and for us. Where-to name one among many-a Joseph Wood Krutch is issued strictly on the inadequacy, inanity and insanity of Eureka, it is worth asking why the reading of this curious text dealt with the hours of Paul Valéry, and may return some of the tremor of wonder that the starry nights brought to our childhood. Without fear of incurring a purely sentimental approach, we believe a balance of Poe's work and its consequences, TWD absolute and it can not be achieved by reducing it to a case, or a series of literary texts . There's more, there is always more. We are in a dark presence of Poe, Poe latency. All in any sector of our person, we are him, and he was one of the great spokesmen of the man, who announces his time at night. So his work, focusing from extratemporal dimension, the dimensions of the profound nature of the naked man is so deep temporary to live in a continuous present, both on the shelves of bookstores as images of nightmares, in human evil and in their search for certain ideals and certain dreams.
(From his introduction to Edgar Allan Poe. Essays and reviews. Alianza Editorial. Madrid, 1973.)
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