Selected Writings
Gerard de Nerval - Author
ISBN 9780140446012 | 448 pages | 01 Aug 1999 | Penguin Classics | 5.07 x 7.79in | 18 - AND UP
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PEN BOMC Translation Prize
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This selection of writings—the first such comprehensive gathering to appear in English—provides an overview of Nerval's work as a poet, belle-lettrist, short-story writer and autobiographer. In addition to "Aurélia", the memoir of his madness, "Sylvie" (considered a 'masterpiece' by Proust), and the hermetic sonnets of "The Chimeras", this volume includes Nerval's Doppelgänger 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.
Selected Writings confirms Nerval's place as a precursor of the French Symbolists and as a vital model for such twentieth-century writers as Marcel Proust, André Breton, Antonin Artaud, and Michel Leiris. Chronology Further Reading Shadow Selves Introductory Note The King of Bedlam The Tale of Caliph Hakim
Memories of the Valois
Unreal Cities
Dream/Life
Sonnets
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