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.
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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.
Imprint | Penguin Classics |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Release date | 1999 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 9 - 15 working days |
First published | August 1999 |
Authors | Gerard De Nerval |
Introduction by | Richard Sieburth |
Notes by | Richard Sieburth |
Translators | Richard Sieburth |
Dimensions | 199 x 134 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - B-format |
Pages | 448 |
Edition | Reissue |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-14-044601-2 |
Barcode | 9780140446012 |
Languages | value |
Subtitles | value |
Categories | |
LSN | 0-14-044601-X |