Le Portrait Ovale

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[Ebook reader of The Oval Portrait]The Oval Portrait (original title: The Oval Portrait) is a fantastic micro-short story written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1842, translated into French by Charles Baudelaire in 1857.This short story, which is part of the New Extraordinary Stories, is one of the shortest written by Edgar Allan Poe: it is only two pages long in the initial publication.
Poe first published his text in Grahams Magazine in 1942.
The story, then a little longer, was entitled "Life in Death."SummaryAn injured man and his servant settle in for a night in a strange and abandoned castle in the Apennines.
At night, when the master cannot sleep, he contemplates the paintings exhibited in his room, while reading the volume found on his pillow containing the analysis of these paintings.A few hours later, the narrator bends down to move the candelabra that lights it, a ray of light then illuminates a strikingly realistic painting that he had not noticed.The painting represents a young girl who has almost become a woman.
The painting is painted with so much virtuosity and so much ardor that the young girl seems alive, which strikes the narrator.
After spending more than an hour contemplating the painting, the man reads the analysis of this portrait in the collection.The rest of the short story is an extract from this volume which tells the story of the painting.The young girl was a person of rare beauty who married a painter, who was passionate about his art, which made her unhappy...(Audiobook)