by Gérard de Nerval · Bruguera · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402082947
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
Las hijas del fuego is a fascinating work by Gérard de Nerval that presents a gallery of feminine portraits, pristine and twilight. The memory delights in invoking the specters of love, intertwining them as in a dream, with frightening visions and fantastic details full of sonorities and endearments. The great genius of poetry, precursor of many avant-gardes of the 20th century, thus realizes a dramatic stripping of his identity, mixing the intimate diary and the autobiographical novel to offer us in each story the core and the inextricable facets of his amorous life.
Gérard de Nerval was the pen name of Gérard Labrunie, a French travel writer, essayist, poet, and translator. He was a major figure during the era of French romanticism, and best known for his novellas and poems, especially the collection Les Filles du feu, which included the novella Sylvie and the poem "El Desdichado". Through his translations, Nerval played a major role in introducing French readers to the works of German Romantic authors, including Klopstock, Schiller, Bürger and Goethe. His later work merged poetry and journalism in a fictional context and influenced Marcel Proust. His last novella, Aurélia ou le rêve et la vie, influenced André Breton and Surrealism.
