De Nerval: Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)

De Nerval: Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)

Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, GÃ©rard 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 'AurÃ©lia', 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, AndrÃ© Breton, Antonin Artaud and Michel Leiris.
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780140446012
ReleaseDate 1999-08-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780140446012

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