Selected Writings

Gerard de Nerval, Richard Sieburth, Richard Sieburth , Richard Sieburth

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French

Penguin Classics
28 September 2006

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary essays; Literary studies: from c 1900 -

Contains new translations of de Nerval's work

Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, Gerard 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 'Aurelia', 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, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud and Michel Leiris.

By: Gerard de Nerval
Notes by: Richard Sieburth
Introduction by: Richard Sieburth
Translated by: Richard Sieburth
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 308g
ISBN: 9780140446012
ISBN 10: 014044601X
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 28 September 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gerard de Nerval (1805-55) was an inveterate traveller, and made many contributions of travel literature to various periodicals. He was also a prolific poet and wrote many tales including 'Sylvie' (1853), his most read work. Richard Sieburth is Professor of French at New York University. He has translated Walter Benjamin's 'Moscow Diary' and Michel Leiris' 'Nights as Day/Days as Night'.