by Théophile Gautier · Bookking International - Classiques Francais · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782877141550
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«Récits fantastiques» is the collection of fantastic tales by Théophile Gautier, published by Bookking International in paperback (443 pages, in French).
The tales move from the dreamlike to the macabre: dead lovers awaken carnal desire, objects come to life, figures emerge from tapestries, and visions are induced by opium and hashish. With echoes of Hoffmann and the occult sciences, they present dreams as a second life and hint at an obsession with time and death.
The edition belongs to the Classiques Français collection; the tales were published between 1831 and 1856, and the original set appeared in 1859 as «Contes et récits fantastiques».
Suitable for readers of nineteenth-century fantastic literature and for students of French literature.
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.
