Selected Writings
by De Nerval, Gerard
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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New York: Grove Press, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Edited, translated and with introduction by Geoffrey Wagner. Text in English and French. Page margins slightly age-toned, first few pages with a tiny nick at foredge (not affecting text), boards lightly splayed, very good in a slightly spine-sunned very good dust jacket with a touch of toning,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; 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 Item Price
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Paperback / softback. New. 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. Item Price
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