Los dominios de Arnheim

Originally written in 1842 as "The Landscape Garden", and expanded several times over the years until reaching its final form in 1847, "The Domain of Arnheim" is one of the most unique texts, as well as little read, of the master of the North American fantastic story. In it, the true protagonist is the landscape, made up of the interrelation between garden and architecture, and which gives rise to a rich literary game that overflows with symbolism, enigmas and mysteries. Many critics have observed in this work a primitive precedent of surrealism, thanks to the enormous influence it had on French authors such as Charles Baudelaire or Raymond Roussel. Although it is usually confused with a treatise on gardening shrouded in a dark atmosphere, "The Dominions of Arhnheim" is much more than that: the protagonist, Ellison, talks about the relationship between philosophy and nature, and the impact that human action has. about her. His conclusion is that nature is an almost perfect draft of all that the human mind can achieve thanks to the imagination. Two years later, Poe continued the theme in "Landor's House," a short piece written in 1849, and which was the last prose text he completed before his death in November of that same year.