by Gérard de Nerval · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070403875
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«Voyage en Orient» is the travelogue by Gérard de Nerval, published by Gallimard as a paperback in 1998 (948 pages, in French).
Nerval recounts his journey through Egypt, Lebanon and Turkey, alternating the chronicle of landscapes and customs with erudite digressions, dreams and personal memories. The work blends the travel journal with literary reflection and is a classic of nineteenth-century travel literature.
The work was originally published in 1851. This edition from the Folio classique collection includes a preface by André Miquel.
For readers of travel literature and nineteenth-century classics interested in Nerval's vision of the Near East.
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.
