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 Format: Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Viking Penguin
ISBN: 014044601X
Release Date: Jan 1, 2001
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855), a contemporary of Poe, De Quincey, Gogol and Heine, introduced into French literature a mode of writing rooted in German romanticism yet already recognizably modernist in its explorations of the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction.. "This selection of writings - the first such comprehensive gathering to appear in English - provides an overview of Nerval's work as a poet, belletrist, short-story writer and autobiographer. In addition to 'Aurelia', the memoir of his madness, 'Sylvie' (considered a 'masterpiece' by Proust), and the hermetic sonnets of 'The Chimeras', this volume includes Nerval's Doppelganger tales and experimental fictions. Selections from his correspondence demonstrate a lucid awareness of the strategies by which nineteenth-century psychiatry consigned his visionary imagination to the purgatory of mental illness.
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A BELOVED FRENCH POET
-- Nathaniel Tarn, July 19, 1999
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
"Nerval" was the pseudonym taken by the French Romantic poet Grard Labrunie (1808-55). Baudelaire, Proust, Breton, and Artaud all considered Nerval a brilliant visionary. The selections presented here show the breadth of his work as poet, short-story writer, autobiographer, and belletrist. His main subject in his work was his madnessmasterfully memorialized in Aurlia, completed a year before his suicide by hanging. Other works included are Sylvie, the sonnets "The Chimeras," and other experimental fiction and letters
| |  | | | | Introduction | | | Chronology | | | Further Reading | | | Shadow Selves | 1 | | The King of Bedlam | 6 | | The Tale of Caliph Hakim | 21 | | Memories of the Valois | 59 | | Angelique | 66 | | Sylvie | 145 | | Unreal Cities | 179 | | Diorama | 187 | | To My Friend Theophile Gautier | 191 | | Octavia | 197 | | October Nights | 204 | | Pandora | 245 | | Dream/Life | 255 | | Aurelia | 265 | | Drafts of 'Aurelia' | 317 | | Panorama | 324 | | Letters | 327 | | Sonnets | 345 | | The Gramont Manuscript | 356 | | The Chimeras | 363 | | Notes | 375 |
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