Research Catalog

Title

Selected writings / Gérard de Nerval ; translated and with an introduction and notes by Richard Sieburth.

Author

Nerval, Gérard de, 1808-1855

Publication

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sieburth, Richard

Description

xxxvi, 406 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

"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." "This selection of writings - the first such comprehensive gathering to appear in English - provides an overview of Nerval's work as a poet, belletrist, short-story writer and autobiographer. In addition to 'Aurelia', the memoir of his madness, 'Sylvie' (considered a 'masterpiece' by Proust), and the hermetic sonnets of 'The Chimeras', this volume includes Nerval's Doppelganger 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."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Penguin classics

Uniform Title

• Works. Selections. English. 1999
• Penguin classics.

Alternative Title

Works. 1999

Subject

• Nerval, Gérard de, 1808-1855 > Translations into English
• Nerval, Gérard de, 1808-1855

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxv]-xxxvi).

Language (note)

• Poems are given in original French, with prose English translation at bottom of page.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Shadow selves -- Memories of the Valois -- Unreal cities -- Dream/life -- Sonnets.

ISBN

014044601X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^00265085^

OCLC

• 43339158
• SCSB-11683478

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library