by Gérard de Nerval · Librairie generale francaise · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253013341
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«Les Filles du feu» is the collection of stories by Gérard de Nerval, published by Librairie générale française in paperback (415 pages, in French).
«Les Filles du feu» brings together eight stories bearing women's names. Nerval traverses the epistolary genre, the short novel, poetic and humorous prose, poetry, the essay and the theatre in pursuit of love and lost time, with the shadow of failure and madness as a backdrop.
The volume includes, in addition to «Les Filles du feu», «Petits Châteaux de Bohême», by Gérard de Nerval.
For readers interested in nineteenth-century French literature and in the narrative and poetic work of Gérard de Nerval.
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.
