by Gérard de Nerval · Editions Flammarion · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782080707826
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«Les Filles du feu / Les Chimères» is a collection of short stories and poems by Gérard de Nerval in paperback (Flammarion, 429 pages, French).
It brings together short stories and poems in which Gérard de Nerval interweaves memory, dream and reality with poetic prose; among them, «Sylvie», «Angélique» and «Pandora» stand out, along with the sonnets of «Les Chimères». The work explores lost love, the passage of time and the boundary between reality and reverie.
Edition established by Jacques Bony, with notes, appendices, bibliography and chronology; the texts were originally published in 1854.
Recommended for readers of nineteenth-century French classics, interested in Romanticism, the short story and poetry.
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.
