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Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) Book

Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, Gerard 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 'Aurelia', 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, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud and Michel Leiris.Read More

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    Selected Writings : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140446012 : 014044601X : 01 Aug 1999 : Gerard de Nerval was a poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer. This selection of his works includes "Aurelia"", the memoir of his madness; the novella of love and memory ""Sylvie""; the hermetic sonnets of ""The Chimeras""; as well as Nerval's experimental fictions and selections from his correspondence."

  • Penguin

    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.

  • 014044601X
  • 9780140446012
  • Gerard de Nerval
  • 28 September 2006
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 448
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