El corazón delator y otros relatos extraordinarios de E. A. Poe

Made in different periods, the five adaptations of stories by Edgar Allan Poe by Alberto Breccia brought together in 'The Tell-Tale Heart' are not mere pretexts for a series of stylistic variations. They provide the Argentine genius, firmly convinced that it is style that must adapt to the atmosphere of the story, and not the other way around, a new opportunity to show his exceptional mastery of drawing and composition. With astonishing ease and ease, he goes from a formal minimalism and cinematographic montage ("The Tell-Tale Heart") to grotesque tones ("William Wilson") or a more expressionist style ("The truth about the case of Mr. Valdemar" ). If a clear distance separates the stripped-down rigor that he uses in "The Tell-Tale Heart" from the profusion of shapes and colors that explodes in "The Mask of the Red Death", however, a red thread connects all these stories. Breccia's constant graphic invention is only intended to starkly illuminate the blurred line between life and death. In this way, he captures this decisive moment when, seized by nothingness, man becomes his own executioner, that unfathomable flaw that Poe himself has never stopped exploring throughout his work.