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Support the growth of the channel and the creation of new audio books and radio plays here: / bookmarkcz Prepared by Ilona Janská using Josef Schwarz's translation. Performed by Lukáš Hlavica. Filmed in 2001 by director Josef Červinka. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket) is the only completed novel by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Poe first published part of it as a magazine in 1837 in the monthly Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond, and a year later the entire novel was published as a book. It is a maritime adventure story with elements of horror, fantasy and mystery. It was apparently created with commercial intentions, but the commercialism gradually disappears and the conclusion is strongly poetic. In addition, the stories are told with a certain exaggeration, which at times turns into a subtle parody. The description of terrible situations is (as is customary with Poe) written without vulgarity and vulgarisms and with a large amount of poetic imagination. The conclusion of the novel then reaches such a gradation that Poe left it open because he apparently decided that nothing would surpass it. Thanks to this, the novel received several sequels, the most famous of which is The Ice Sphinx (1897, Le sphinx des glaces) by the French writer Jules Verne, which, however, completely lacks the mysterious and terrifying atmosphere of the original work.