Esplin argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe s works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe s image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer."

Few, if any, U.S. writers are as important to the history of world literature as Edgar Allan Poe, and few, if any, U.S. authors owe so much of their current reputations to the process of translation. Translated Poe brings together 31 essays from 19 different national/literary traditions to demonstrate Poe s extensive influence on world literature and thought while revealing the importance of the vehicle that delivers Poe to the world translation. Translated Poe is not preoccupied with judging the quality of any given Poe translation nor with assessing what a specific translation of Poe must...

Few, if any, U.S. writers are as important to the history of world literature as Edgar Allan Poe, and few, if any, U.S. authors owe so much of their current reputations to the process of translation. Translated Poe brings together 31 essays from 19 different national/literary traditions to demonstrate Poe's extensive influence on world literature and thought while revealing the importance of the vehicle that delivers Poe to the world--translation. Translated Poe is not preoccupied with judging the -quality- of any given Poe translation nor with assessing what a specific translation of Poe...

Argues that Jorge Luis Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Edgar Allan Poe's works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe's image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer.