LES AVENTURES DE GORDON PYM
(IN COLOR w/ English Translation / Part 2)
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"
It seemed an obvious place to place a break after Arthur & Augustus' drunken misadventure in the sailboat. Incredibly, that was only Chapter 1 out of 25 in Poe's novel. Which means this illustrated book has to cram the remaining 24 chapters in. We'll see how this goes. As the book's in French, I'm reading it one page at a time while I do the English translation.
In the "Preface", French book editor Jacques de Lacretelle talked about the 1948 adaptation keeping "Poe's message" while "alleviating it of the apparatus of a century". In other words, updating the style to make it modern. Perhaps he would have been confused, or worse, by the way that, as I translate the French into English, I'm going out of my way to incorporate as much actual, authentic 1838 Poe narration from the original novel as I can possibly use and squeeze in!
In some cases, as with the nautical terminology, the words and phrases used by Poe may be either so specific to sea-goers, or so ANTIQUATED, that many, if not most, modern readers may have scarce idea what is being talked about, without looking up half the words. I admit-- that includes ME! Despite this, I like the idea of using the original words, as it makes it a real time capsule of the era. And, if anyone becomes better educated on the teminology and turns of phrase along the way, all the better.
ENJOY!
LES AVENTURES DE GORDON PYM
cover by BERNARD LAMOTTE
(Collection LeRuban Rouge / Librairie Arthème Fayard /
France / 1948)
("THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET") /
Version 1
Adaptation by Jean Wall / Art by BERNARD LAMOTTE
Page 27 / "Our story continues..."
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!
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.
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 3rd PART of this... coming up next!!!
(Continued in Poe 1948, Pt. 4)
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