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De Nerval: Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)

  • Author: Gerard De Nerval
  • ISBN 10: 014044601X
  • ISBN 13: 9780140446012
  • Release: August 1, 1999
  • Format: Paperback (448 pages)
  • List Price: $18.00
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    List Price: $18.00

    Tags: Literature & Fiction, General, Classics,

    Book Description:
    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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