La chute de la maison Usher
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La chute de la maison Usher is the French translation of the title of Edgar Allan Poe
's tale The Fall of the House of Usher
(1839). The most famous French translation of the story is by Charles Baudelaire
(first published in the magazine Le pays in February 1855 and included in the collection Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires in 1857). It is the basis of the following works:
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...
's tale The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in September 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. It was slightly revised in 1840 for the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque...
(1839). The most famous French translation of the story is by Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire was a French poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the nineteenth century...
(first published in the magazine Le pays in February 1855 and included in the collection Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires in 1857). It is the basis of the following works:
- La chute de la maison Usher (opera)La chute de la maison Usher (opera)La chute de la maison Usher is an unfinished opera in one act by Claude Debussy to his own libretto, based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Fall of the House of Usher...
, an unfinished opera by Claude DebussyClaude DebussyClaude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions... - The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 French film), a silent film by Jean EpsteinJean EpsteinJean Epstein was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist. Although he is remembered today primarily for his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, Epstein directed three dozen films and was an influential critic of literature and film from the...