Plus, free twoday shipping for six months when you sign up for amazon prime for students. Throughout his tempestuous life that ended with suicide by hanging, this french romantic poet journeyed to distant parts of the globe in order to comprehend and articulate the demons that assailed his innermost being. Nerval first became noted because of his translation of goethes faust 1828. Aug 25, 2019 a few years ago i did find the kendall lapin translation of aurelia and sylvie. The book was published in multiple languages including french, consists of 94 pages and is available in paperback format. Nervals mother, marieantoinettemarguerite laurent, died in 1810 in silesia. One of the original selfstyled bohemians, nerval was best known in his own day for parading a lobster on.
The culmination of nerval s quest was aurelia, a surrealistic prose dissection of mind and soul, completed only a year before his. Il porte en lui une image qui, nuit et jour, le hante. His father, etienne labrunie, was a doctor in napoleons army. The features of relatives whose deaths i had mourned. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. One of the original selfstyled bohemians, nerval was best known in his own day for parading a lobster on a pale blue ribbon through the gardens of the.
The main characters of this fiction, cultural story are. Prolegomenes a une edition critique, par jean guillaume. One of the most remarkable prose works of 19th century french literature, aurelia is an extended personal journeyessay chronicling nerval s psychic experiences and visions. A harrowing document of a descent into madness, by frances defining poet of bohemian romanticism. Dream, creativity, and madness in nineteenthcentury france authors. One of the original selfstyled bohemians, nerval was best known in his own day for parading a lobster on a pale blue ribbon through the gardens of the palaisroyal, and was posthumously notorious for his suicide inhanging from an apron string he called the garter of the queen of sheba. Qui ne saurait pas limportance daurelia, separee des filles du feu, temoignant du dernier ner. Aurelia is a lucid recitation and exposition of not only dreams, but various fugue states, metaphysical visions, hallucinatory episodes, and accounts of incarcerations in numerous asylums and clinics around the paris metropolitan area.
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