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Available
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Publication
Penguin Classics (1999), Paperback, 448 pages
Description
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.
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LibraryThing member lisa_emily
The myth of Nerval: eccentric, careless, tortured. Reading the writing of this eccentric, you walk away dazed by the multi-dimensional, jeweled imagination he carried within him. The themes of Nerval’s stories are typical: desired love, lost love, phantasmagoric worlds and exotic places. However,
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you sense one who has wandered so far away that there can be no returning. Nerval pursues his dreamt muse who forever eludes her capture into words. Show Less
LibraryThing member ifjuly
I knew this would break my heart, and I dove in anyway.
Awards
PEN Translation Prize (Winner — 2000)
Language
Original language
French
Physical description
448 p.; 5.46 inches
ISBN
014044601X / 9780140446012