“THE REAL AMERICAN GENIUS”: TO THE PROBLEM OF E. POE’S RECEPTION IN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA IN XIX - THE BEGINNING OF XX CENTURY

The material considering the first publication of E. Poe’s translations in the European and Latin American literature is presented. The cultural and historical conditions and individual authors’ features of E. Poe creativity reception in Russia, Britain, France, Germany, Norway, Scandinavia, Spain, Romania, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Costa Rica and Uruguay are characterized. The relevance is due to the reference to the problem of inter-ethnic dialogue literature, identifying the specifics of the ethno-cultural and individual psychological factors of its implementation. Based on the analysis in the diachronic history successful reception of creativity E. Poe was conditioned as to the different nationality motivated determined proximity of the phases of historical development, which are experiencing “transmitting” and “receiving” literature. Certain (though not necessarily decisive) role in this process plays culture intermediary through which the foreign recipient begins acquaintance with the works of E. Poe. However, the mere fact that such love does not always become the basis for a literary influence. An important role plays proximity reception in the process of plays of author’s individuals.

E. Poe, reception, Europe, Latin America, literary translation, dialogue of cultures, international relations