The Tell-Tale Heart

• Auteur : Edgar Allan Poe
• • Editeur : Penguin Classics 2015
  • ISBN/ISSN : 978-0-14-139726-9
  • Format : 47 p.
  • Langues : Anglais
• • Nature du document : fiction Genre : Policier/Fantastique
  • Résumé :

    An unnamed narrator opens the story by addressing the reader and claiming that he is nervous but not mad. He says that he is going to tell a story in which he will defend his sanity yet confess to having killed an old man. His motivation was neither passion nor desire for money, but rather a fear of the man’s pale blue eye. Again, he insists that he is not crazy because his cool and measured actions, though criminal, are not those of a madman. Every night, he went to the old man’s apartment and secretly observed the man sleeping. In the morning, he would behave as if everything were normal. After a week of this activity, the narrator decides, somewhat randomly, that the time is right actually to kill the old man.