品牌：Gerard de Nerval
基本信息
·出版社：Penguin Classics
·页码：448 页码
·出版日：1999年
·ISBN：014044601X
·条码：9780140446012
·装帧：平装
内容简介
The most inclusive and comprehensive selection of Nerval's brilliant poems, memoirs, fictions, and essays ever to appear in English.
Charles Baudelaire regarded Nerval as the most lucid poet of the age, and Marcel Proust ranked him as one of its greatest prose writers. Andre Breton claimed Nerval as the precursor of Surrealism, and Antonin Artaud placed him in the same visionary company as Friedrich Nietzsche and Vincent van Gogh. This selection of writings provides an overview of Nerval's work as a poet, belletrist, short-story writer, and autobiographer. In addition to "Aurelia," the memoir of his madness, "Sylvie" (considered a "masterpiece" by Proust), and the hermetic sonnets of "The Chimeras," this volume includes Nerval's doppelgnger tales and experimental fictions. Selections from his correspondence demonstrate a lucid awareness of the strategies by which nineteenth-century psychiatry consigned his visionary imagination to the purgatory of mental illness. This volume will confirm Nerval's major place in literary history as much more than the amiable eccentric who walked live lobsters on blue ribbons through the streets of Paris.
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Book jacket
Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855), a contemporary of Poe, De Quincey, Gogol and Heine, introduced into French literature a mode of writing rooted in German romanticism yet already recognizably modernist in its explorations of the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction.This selection of writings--the first such comprehensive gathering to appear in English--provides an overview of Nerval's work as a poet, belle-lettrist, short-story writer and autobiographer. In addition to "Aurélia", the memoir of his madness, "Sylvie" (considered a "masterpiece" by Proust), and the hermetic sonnets of The Chimeras, this volume includes Nerval's Doppelgänger tales and experimental fictions. Selections from his correspondence demonstrate a lucid awareness of the strategies by which 19th-century psychiatry consigned his visionary imagination to the purgatory of mental illness.Selected Writings confirms Nerval's place as a precursor of the French Symbolists and as a vital model for such 20th-century writers as Marcel Proust, André Breton, Antonin Artaud, and Michel Leiris."For a long time now, poetry has been thought of as a distant land, and poetry in translation seems to legitimize even further our unwillingness to take the trip. Richard Siedburth's recent annotated translation of Gérard de Nerval's Selected Writings makes the journey worthwhile" Kalliopi Nikolopoulou, Lingua FrancaFor more titles in the Penguin Classics range, visit Amazon.co.uk's Penguin Classics Bookstore.
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