Edgar Allan Poe’s The Angel of the Odd, an Extravaganza

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26512/belasinfieis.v10.n1.2021.32822

Keywords:

Literary translation. Translated short-story. Humor. North American literature. Edgar Allan Poe.

Abstract

First published in 1844, The Angel of The Odd, an Extravaganza, is a burlesque short-story that reveals the comic side of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), the American master of horror and mystery stories, author of one of the most well-known poems in the world, The Raven, and also considered one of the creators of the detective fiction genre. Upon reading, in a newspaper, a piece of news that he considers unusual, and expressing doubts about its veracity, the narrator faces an unexpected encounter with a very odd figure who calls himself the Angel of the Odd. After this meeting, the narrator gets involved in several situations that seem casual works of chance, but that lead us to suspect that they are influenced by the mysterious angel – who has no resemblance whatsoever with conventional angels –, all of which aimed at proving that “odd accidents”, whose existence the narrator doubted, do happen and are not just inventions of journalists. This new translation into Portuguese, preceded by a brief presentation, seeks to recreate the stylistic elements that mark this short-story – in particular the way of speaking of the Angel with his strong German accent –, as well as to rescue, in footnotes, references perhaps unknown to contemporary Brazilian readers. As this story was originally written almost 180 years ago, there was an effort to maintain a certain “patina of antiquity”, as Paulo Rónai would say, with the use of vocabulary and syntactic resources capable of evoking for nowadays readers the landscape of the tale’s depicted epoch.

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Author Biography

Adauto Lúcio Caetano Villela, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Professor adjunto da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Doutor em Letras: Estudos Literários (2012) pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Mestre em Linguística Aplicada à Tradução (2001) pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Bacharel em Direito (1995) pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Faculdade de Letras. Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brasil

References

POE, E. A. The Angle of The Odd, an Extravaganza (first published in the October 1844 issue of the Columbian Magazine), in Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry & Tales. New York: Library of America, 1984, p. 756”“65.

RICHARD, C. Arrant Bubbles: Poe’s ‘The Angel of the Odd’, in Poe Newsletter Vol. II, No. 3. Baltimore: The Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1969, p. 46-48.

Published

2021-07-07

How to Cite

VILLELA, Adauto Lúcio Caetano. Edgar Allan Poe’s The Angel of the Odd, an Extravaganza. Belas Infiéis, Brasília, Brasil, v. 10, n. 1, p. 01–11, 2021. DOI: 10.26512/belasinfieis.v10.n1.2021.32822. Disponível em: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/belasinfieis/article/view/32822. Acesso em: 23 nov. 2024.

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Traduções literárias

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