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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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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'.
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- PublisherThe University of Michigan Press
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0472061631
- ISBN 13 9780472061631
- BindingPaperback
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book is clean and tight. Former owner's signature on inside of front cover. Pages have annotations. Covers have staining and nicks. Nerval -- poet, dreamer, hallucinatory mystic, precursor of the surrealists, who translated Faust at nineteen, paraded the gardens of the Palais Royal with a lobster on a pale blue ribbon, and hanged himself with one wintry morning with the Queen of Sheba's garter -- was the most exotic of the nineteenth-century French romantics. Seller Inventory # TJ230097
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Selected Writings
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Publisher: Ann Arbor Paperbacks AA163/University Of Michigan Press, 1970. First Softcover Edition Thus, First Printing. FINE- softcover book in wraps, as issued. Small white sticker on front free end paper. Not remainder marked. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. Seller Inventory # SKU1020132
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