by Gerard de Nerval · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140446012
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This newly selected and translated collection of de Nerval's writings includes his Oriental Tales; Recollections of Valois; his prose text about cities; his autobiographical October Nights; and his work on madness, Aurelia.
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.
