Freuden des Krimi-Depeschen-Dienststellenleiters: Bei den nächtlichen Streifzügen durch dieses Internet bin ich über ein mir bislang unbekanntes Goldstück gestolpert.
Die schottische Kriminalschriftstellerin Denise Mina hat sich auf die Spuren von Edgar Allan Poe begeben. Sie zeichnet sein Leben, sein Werk und sein Verhältnis zu Frauen nach. Denise Minas Kunst des Erzählens, die mir unter anderem in ihrem Roman The End of the Wasp Season so gefiel, wird auch in dieser TV-Dokumentation deutlich, die 2010 erstmals von BBC Four ausgestrahlt wurde. Eine junge, moderne Kriminalschriftstellerin entdeckt einen alten Meister – ein sehenswertes Biopic.
»Edgar Allan Poe is everywhere. The Following, featuring murders based on Poe, occupies prime time Monday on Fox, and memories of Long Beach Opera’s production Philip Glass’s The Fall of the House of Usher linger on in San Pedro. There’s a story, true as far as I know, that when Roger Corman was in the middle of shooting House of Usher (1960) — one of his eight Poe adaptations, most of them starring Vincent Price — he heard that a house had just burned down in the Hollywood Hill.«
»This is why The Following, with its thinly veiled infatuation with omnipotent, amoral killers, has no right to invoke Poe. Beneath the gothic trappings of his verse and tales is the truth of human life, rather than a callow, sub-Nietzschean fantasy about casting off all moral restraints.«
Laura Miller
The horror of the The Following comes not just from the storytelling, but from the way it maligns the literary legacy of Edgar Allan Poe, Laura Miller says. Her comment on the TV Drama you can read at salon.com.
»Many labels have been attached to the book–speculative history, dystopian, action/adventure, romance, and young adult fiction. But with a title like Masque of the Red Death, the conversation always comes back to Poe.«
Bethany Griffin about the challenges of adapting a Poe-Story and her book Masque of the Red Death. Read more at huffingtonpost.com.
“Each year, on the anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe‘s birth, several fans of the writer spend a chilly night by his grave here (in Baltimore). They are hoping to catch a glimpse of another Poe admirer—one who wears a dark hat and coat and for several decades has left three red roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac by the tombstone. But the mysterious figure (…) hasn’t shown up in the past to years. “ Read the report by Jonathan D. Rockoff at wsj.com. Via.
