Poe 1948, Pt. 8

(Continued from Poe 1948, Pt. 7)

"THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET"
     (Gallery of Illustrations)

I'm including a bonus gallery of illustrations by various artists over the decades.

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by unknown   (1838 ?)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by Frederic Lix & Yan' Dargent (1862)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by Police Newson   (1884)

"THE WRECK OF THE GRAMPUS" by Robert Swain Gifford   (1884)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by Frederick Simpson Coburn   (1902)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by Rene Clarke
     (Limited Editions Club  /  New York  /  1930)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by Auguste Leroux   (1933)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by Roc Riera Rojas
     (??  /  Spain  /  19??)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by unknown
     (SHONEN JUMP  /  Japan  /  1969)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by unknown   (Dacia  /  Hungary  /  1972)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by unknown   (Penguin English Library  /  1975)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by Oscar Zarate   (Bruguera  /  Spain  /  1981)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM, or the journey along a whiskey bottle"
     by Enrike Gimeno   (2004)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by Trattoglia   (2010)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by Broadview Press (artist unknown)   (2010)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM Map" by Violet Blast   (2012)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by Carles Grau   (2013)

"RICK PARKER" by Carles Grau   (2013)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by Samy Consu   (2013)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by David Lupton   (2015)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by Rado Javor   (2015)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by AbyssWatchers   (2016)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by unknown   (date unknown)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by unknown   (20??)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by unknown   (20??)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by unknown   (20??)

"ARTHUR GORDON PYM" by Kevin Thomas   (2015)

Copyright (C) the various artists.

     Scans of "Arthur Gordon Pym" by:
Unknown (1838) from the Death And Taxes Mag site,
Frederic Lix & Yan' Dargent (1862) from the Wikipedia site,
Police Newton (1884) from the Peru.com site,
Robert Swain Gifford (1884) from the All Posters site,
Frederick Simpson Coburn (1902) from the SFF Audio site,
Rene Clark (1930) from the Walk About Books site,
Auguste Leroux (1933) from the CuBra site,
Roc Riera Rojas (??) from the Ulises-Italca site,
Unknown / "Shonen Jump" magazine (1969) from the Mazmorra Maldita site,
Unknown / Dacia, Hungary (1972) from the Moly Hu site,
Unknown / Penguin English Library (1975) from the Ego Sum Qui site,
Oscar Zarate (1981) from the TodoColeccion site,
Enrike Gimeno (2004) from the ?? site,
Trattoglia (2010) from the Deviant Art site,
Unknown / Broadview Press (2010) from the ?? site,
Violet Blast (2012) from the Deviant Art site,
Charles Grau (2013) from the ?? site,
Samy Consu (2013) from the Deviant Art site,
David Lupton (2015) from the David Lupton site,
Rado Javor (2015) from the Deviant Art site,
Abyss Watchers (2016) from the Deviant Art site,
unknown (??) from the Biblio Filo Enmascarado site,
unknown (20??) from the Disrecognized Space site,
unknown (20??) from The Casual Observer site,
unknown (20??) from the El Pajaro Burlon site, and
Kevin Thomas (2015) from the Kevin Thomas site.

For More:
Read about Edgar Allan Poe at The Poe Museum site.
Read about Edgar Allan Poe at the Biography site.

Read about The Société Parisienne d'Édition at Wikipedia.
See the complete list of Mondial Aventures at the Bedes d'Antan site!
See the Willy & Yves Groux page at the Lambiek Comiclopedia site.

See more art by Riera Rojas via Google Images.
See more art by Enrike Gemino at his blog.
See more art by Violet Blast at the Deviant Art site.
See more art by David Lupton at the David Luptom.com site.
See more art by Rado Javor at the Deviant Art site.
See more art by Abyss Watchers at the Deviant Art site.

Read about THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET
     at the Grade Saver site.
Read the complete novel at the at the Lit 2 Go site.
See the ARTHUR GORDON PYM Gallery of Illustrations. 

     Audio:
Hear the LIT 2 GO audio book!
Hear THE WEIRD CIRCLE episode!

     Comics:
Read the Bernard Lamotte ARTHUR GORDON PYM adaptation!
Read the Yves & Willy Groux ARTHUR GORDON PYM adaptation!
Read the Franc Fuentes Man ARTHUR GORDON PYM adaptation!
     (coming soon)
Read the Editorial Sea/Navaro ARTHUR GORDON PYM adaptation!
     (Coming soon:)
Read the Cesar Lopez Vera ARTHUR GORDON PYM adaptation!
Read the Jorge Bernuy S. ARTHUR GORDON PYM adaptation!
Read the Enrique Alcatena ARTHUR GORDON PYM adaptation!

See the CHRONOLOGICAL list of Edgar Allan Poe stories!
See the ALPHABETICAL list of Edgar Allan Poe stories!

(Continued from Poe 1949, Pt. 1)

Poe 1948, Pt. 7

(Continued from Poe 1948, Pt. 6)

LES AVENTURES DE GORDON PYM
     (IN COLOR  w/ English Translation  /  Part 6)

Collection LeRuban Rouge is an imprint of Librairie Arthème Fayard in France.

In 1948, apparently, they published the very first heavily-illustrated story book version of Edgar Allan Poe's only novel...

     "THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET"

When I first read this story, I was shocked by what happened at this point.  Despite all the violence and horror that had preceded it, this sudden and seemingly-inexplicable turn of events made no apparent sense, expecially coming after nearly an entire month of the explorers having seemingly made friends with the natives.

As I worked on the translation for this particular version, I noted a seemingly key passage was glaringly absent from what the French adapter had included:

"The fate of our poor companions was no longer a matter of uncertainty. We alone had escaped from the tempest of that overwhelming destruction. We were the only living white men upon the island."

What follows is positively mind-boggling...

ENJOY...  if you can!

LES AVENTURES DE GORDON PYM
cover by BERNARD LAMOTTE
     (Collection LeRuban Rouge  /  Librairie Arthème Fayard  /
          France  /  1948)

"LES AVENTURES DE GORDON PYM"
     ("THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET")  /
          Version 1
Adaptation by Jean Wall  /  Art by BERNARD LAMOTTE
Page 101  /  "And now... the EPIC conclusion!"

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Back Cover

The abrupt, inexplicable, and clearly quite unfinished "ending" of this story, has to be one of the biggest and most infamous "WHAT THE F***?" moments in all of literature.  Did Poe ever intend to finish the story, and deal with the various unseen later things mentioned by Pym in his earlier passages?  Did Poe's recurring real-life misfortunes interfere with his doing so-- or was what we got entirely deliberate-- one big JOKE foisted on his reading public?  No one will probably ever know.

One thing is certain.  This story-- unfinished as it was-- perhaps because it was unfinished-- inspired numerous later writers with their own stories of Antarctic exploration.  In fact, no less than 3 of them wrote actual if unofficial (and unrelated) sequels!

"THE SPHINX OF THE ICE FIELDS" (Jules Verne / 1897),
"A STRANGE DISCOVERY" (Charles Romyn Dake / 1898), and
"AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS" (H.P. Lovecraft / 1936).

At least 2 of these have been adapted as comics.  As I type this (7-31-2020), I'm considering including them at some point as part of this project.

In addition, at least 2 Edgar Rice Burroughs stories may also have been inspired by Poe's story:  "AT THE EARTH'S CORE" (1914) and "THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT" (1924).

In turn, the Lovecraft story, it has been strongly suggested, was one of the inspirations for the movie "ALIEN" (1979), and even moreso, "ALIENS VS. PREDATORS" (2004).  By extension, this means that "AGP" may well well have led to "AVP".

Finally, regarding Bernard Lamotte (1903-1983), here's a painting of his I found online, which made me believe this could be the same artist...

"Rue Sous la Pluie a Paris" (Restaurant Au Bon Coin)  /  (1950)

Copyright (C) Bernard Lamotte.
English translation & new color Copyright (C) 2020 Henry R. Kujawa.

Scans of LES AVENTURES DE GORDON PYM
     from MY collection!
          with special thanks to La Bergerie store in Switzerland,
          to Richard Gagnon for pointing me at a MUCH-cheaper copy,
          and to "Yves 66" on Amazon France
          without whom I might never have acquired this book!
Scan of "Rue Sous La Pluie a Paris" from the Terenchin.com site.

Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa

For more:
Read about Edgar Allan Poe at The Poe Museum site.
Read about Edgar Allan Poe at the Biography site.

See more Bernard Lamotte art at the Vose Galleries site
     with special thanks to "Paw Broon" for the link.

Read about THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET
     at the Grade Saver site.
Read the complete novel at the at the Lit 2 Go site.
See the ARTHUR GORDON PYM Gallery of Illustrations. 

     Audio:
Hear the LIT 2 GO audio book!
Hear THE WEIRD CIRCLE episode!

     Comics:
Read the Bernard Lamotte ARTHUR GORDON PYM adaptation!
Read the Yves & Willy Groux ARTHUR GORDON PYM adaptation!
Read the Franc Fuentes Man ARTHUR GORDON PYM adaptation!
     (coming soon)
Read the Editorial Sea / Navaro ARTHUR GORDON PYM adaptation!
     (Coming soon:)
Read the Cesar Lopez Vera ARTHUR GORDON PYM adaptation!
Read the Jorge Bernuy S. ARTHUR GORDON PYM adaptation!
Read the Enrique Alcatena ARTHUR GORDON PYM adaptation!

See the CHRONOLOGICAL list of Edgar Allan Poe stories!
See the ALPHABETICAL list of Edgar Allan Poe stories!

Don't miss the BONUS GALLERY of ILLUSTRATIONS up next!

(Continued in Poe 1948, Pt. 8)