Nerval, Gerard De
Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780140446012
- author:
- Nerval, Gerard De
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Penguin Classics
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 1999
- Pages:
- 448
- Dimensions:
- 13 x 2.2 x 19.8 centimetres (0.3
- Genre:
- Literary studies: from c 1900 -
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Gerard de Nerval's Selected Writings offers a comprehensive overview of the French writer's innovative and influential body of work. This collection brings together a range of Nerval's poetry, prose, and essays, showcasing his unique blend of romanticism and modernist experimentation. Nerval's writing explores the boundaries between reality and fantasy, autobiography and fiction, and the human experience of madness and the unknown. The selection includes his famous memoir, 'Aurelia', as well as his short stories, such as 'Sylvie', and his experimental fictions. Correspondence and other writings demonstrate Nerval's awareness of the social and cultural context in which he wrote, and the ways in which his work was perceived and received during his lifetime. This first English-language collection of Nerval's writings provides a valuable insight into the life and work of a key figure in French literary history, and is an essential resource for anyone interested in 19th-century literature and the development of modernist writing.
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