Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. TITELBLATT

2. IMPRESSUM

3. MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE

4. THE ASSIGNATION

5. KING PEST

6. LIGEIA

7. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

8. WILLIAM WILSON

9. THE MAN OF THE CROWD

10. A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTRÖM

11. THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE

12. TALES, VOLUME I (ENGLISCH)

Edgar Allan Poe
Tales, Volume I / Erzählungen, Band I
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MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE

DAS MANUSKRIPT IN DER FLASCHE

Qui n’a plus qu’un moment a vivre
N’a plus rien a dissimuler.
Quinault — Atys.

OF my country and of my family I have little to say.

Von meiner Heimat und meiner Familie läßt sich wenig sagen.

Ill usage and length of years have driven me from the one, and estranged me from the other.

Schlechte Behandlung hat mich von dieser vertrieben, und Jahre der Trennung haben mich jener entfremdet.

Hereditary wealth afforded me an education of no common order,

Ererbter Reichtum verpflichtete mich zu einem außergewöhnlich sorgfältigen Bildungsgang,

and a contemplative turn of mind enabled me to methodise the stores which early study very diligently garnered up.

und mein grüblerischer Geist ermöglichte es mir, die Schätze frühen Studiums gründlich zu verarbeiten.

Beyond all things, the works of the German moralists gave me great delight;

Von allen Dingen erfreuten mich am meisten die Werke der deutschen Moralisten,

not from any ill-advised admiration of their eloquent madness, but from the ease with which my habits of rigid thought enabled me to detect their falsities.

nicht etwa, weil ich so unbedacht war, ihre geschwätzige Narrheit zu bewundern, sondern weil meine streng logische Denkweise es mir leicht machte, ihre Fehler aufzudecken.

I have often been reproached with the aridity of my genius; a deficiency of imagination has been imputed to me as a crime;

Man hat mir sogar oft ein allzu nüchternes Denken vorgeworfen und meinen Mangel an Phantasie als Verbrechen hingestellt;

and the Pyrrhonism of my opinions has at all times rendered me notorious.

ja, ich war berüchtigt wegen meiner Skepsis.

Indeed, a strong relish for physical philosophy has, I fear, tinctured my mind with a very common error of this age —

Und in der Tat befürchte ich, daß meine Vorliebe für Physik auch meinen Geist in einen Fehler unserer Zeit verfallen ließ –

I mean the habit of referring occurrences, even the least susceptible of such reference, to the principles of that science.

ich meine: in die Gewohnheit, alle Dinge auf die Prinzipien eben jener Wissenschaft zurückzuführen – selbst wenn sie noch so sehr außerhalb ihres Bereiches lagen.

Upon the whole, no person could be less liable than myself to be led away from the severe precincts of truth by the ignes fatui of superstition. I have thought proper to premise thus much, lest the incredible tale I have to tell should be considered rather the raving of a crude imagination, than the positive experience of a mind to which the reveries of fancy have been a dead letter and a nullity.

After many years spent in foreign travel, I sailed in the year 18—, from the port of Batavia,

Nach vielen auf weiten Reisen im Ausland verbrachten Jahren trat ich im Jahre 18.. von Batavia,

in the rich and populous island of Java, on a voyage to the Archipelago of the Sunda islands.

der Hafenstadt der wohlhabenden und volkreichen Insel Java, eine Segelreise nach dem Archipel der Sunda-Inseln an.

I went as passenger — having no other inducement than a kind of nervous restlessness which haunted me as a fiend.

Der Anlaß zu dieser Reise war kein geschäftlicher, sondern lediglich eine nervöse Rastlosigkeit, die mich mit teuflischer Ausdauer plagte.

Our vessel was a beautiful ship of about four hundred tons, copper-fastened, and built at Bombay of Malabar teak.

Unser Fahrzeug war ein schönes kupferbeschlagenes Schiff von etwa vierhundert Tonnen, das in Bombay aus malerischem Teakholz gebaut worden war.

She was freighted with cotton-wool and oil, from the Lachadive islands.

Es war mit Baumwolle und Öl von den Lachadive-Inseln befrachtet.

We had also on board coir, jaggeree, ghee, cocoa-nuts, and a few cases of opium.

Ferner hatten wir Kokosbast, Zucker, konservierte Butter, Kokosnüsse und einige Behälter mit Opium an Bord.

The stowage was clumsily done, and the vessel consequently crank.

Das Schiff war mit dieser leichten Last fest gefüllt und hatte infolgedessen entsprechenden Tiefgang.

We got under way with a mere breath of wind, and for many days stood along the eastern coast of Java,

Wir stachen bei schwachem Wind in See und segelten tagelang an der Ostküste von Java dahin,

without any other incident to beguile the monotony of our course than the occasional meeting with some of the small grabs of the Archipelago to which we were bound.

und der einzige Zwischenfall auf unserer eintönigen Fahrt war das gelegentliche Zusammentreffen mit einem der unserer Inselgruppe zugehörigen malabarischen Schiffchen.

One evening, leaning over the taffrail, I observed a very singular, isolated cloud, to the N. W.

Eines Abends, als ich an Backbord lehnte, gewahrte ich im Nordosten eine seltsame einzelnstehende Wolke.

It was remarkable, as well for its color, as from its being the first we had seen since our departure from Batavia.

Sie fiel mir auf – einmal ihrer Farbe wegen, und dann, weil es die erste Wolke war, die sich seit unserer Ausfahrt aus Batavia sehen ließ.

MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE

Qui n’a plus qu’un moment a vivre
N’a plus rien a dissimuler.
Quinault — Atys.

OF my country and of my family I have little to say. Ill usage and length of years have driven me from the one, and estranged me from the other. Hereditary wealth afforded me an education of no common order, and a contemplative turn of mind enabled me to methodise the stores which early study very diligently garnered up. Beyond all things, the works of the German moralists gave me great delight; not from any ill-advised admiration of their eloquent madness, but from the ease with which my habits of rigid thought enabled me to detect their falsities. I have often been reproached with the aridity of my genius; a deficiency of imagination has been imputed to me as a crime; and the Pyrrhonism of my opinions has at all times rendered me notorious. Indeed, a strong relish for physical philosophy has, I fear, tinctured my mind with a very common error of this age — I mean the habit of referring occurrences, even the least susceptible of such reference, to the principles of that science. Upon the whole, no person could be less liable than myself to be led away from the severe precincts of truth by the ignes fatui of superstition. I have thought proper to premise thus much, lest the incredible tale I have to tell should be considered rather the raving of a crude imagination, than the positive experience of a mind to which the reveries of fancy have been a dead letter and a nullity.

After many years spent in foreign travel, I sailed in the year 18—, from the port of Batavia, in the rich and populous island of Java, on a voyage to the Archipelago of the Sunda islands. I went as passenger — having no other inducement than a kind of nervous restlessness which haunted me as a fiend.

Our vessel was a beautiful ship of about four hundred tons, copper-fastened, and built at Bombay of Malabar teak. She was freighted with cotton-wool and oil, from the Lachadive islands. We had also on board coir, jaggeree, ghee, cocoa-nuts, and a few cases of opium. The stowage was clumsily done, and the vessel consequently crank.

We got under way with a mere breath of wind, and for many days stood along the eastern coast of Java, without any other incident to beguile the monotony of our course than the occasional meeting with some of the small grabs of the Archipelago to which we were bound.

One evening, leaning over the taffrail, I observed a very singular, isolated cloud, to the N. W. It was remarkable, as well for its color, as from its being the first we had seen since our departure from Batavia.