Selected Writings
by Nerval, Gerard De
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This selection of writingsthe first such comprehensive gathering to appear in Englishprovides 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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- Bonita (US)
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- Title
- Selected Writings
- Author
- Nerval, Gerard De
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
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- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0586023887
- ISBN 13
- 9780586023884
- Publisher
- Harpercollins Distribution Services
- This edition first published
- 1973