Gerard De Nerval

Selected Writings (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction with his groundbreaking writings. This comprehensive selection of his works includes 'Aurélia', the memoir of his madness; the haunting novella of love and memory 'Sylvie' (considered to be a masterpiece by Proust); the hermetic sonnets of 'The Chimeras'; as well as Nerval's experimental fictions and selections from his correspondence, which demonstrate his lucid awareness of how nineteenth-century psychiatry consigned his fertile imagination to the status of mental illness. Together these pieces confirm Nerval's place as a pioneering modernist, a precursor of the French Symbolists and a vital model for such writers as Marcel Proust, André Breton, Antonin Artaud and Michel Leiris.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141966618
• Artikelnr.: 38132755

Autorenporträt

Gerard de Nerval (1805-55) was an inveterate traveller, and made many contributions of travel literature to various periodicals. He was also a prolific poet and wrote many tales including 'Sylvie' (1853), his most read work.
Richard Sieburth is Professor of French at New York University. He has translated Walter Benjamin's 'Moscow Diary' and Michel Leiris' 'Nights as Day/Days as Night'.

Inhaltsangabe

Selected WritingsIntroduction
Chronology
Further Reading
Shadow Selves
Introductory Note
The King of Bedlam
The Tale of Caliph Hakim
Memories of the Valois
Introductory Note
Angélique
Sylvie
Unreal Cities
Introductory Note
Diorama
To My Friend Théophile Gautier
Octavia
October Nights
Pandora
Dream/Life
Introductory Note
Aurélia
Drafts of "Aurélia"
Panorama
Letters
Sonnets
Introductory Note
The Gramont Manuscript
The Chimeras
Notes