Limit this search to....

Aurelia & Other Writings
Contributor(s): De Nerval, Gerard (Author), Wagner, Geoffrey (Translator), Duncan, Robert (Translator)
ISBN: 187897209X     ISBN-13: 9781878972095
Publisher: Exact Change
OUR PRICE:   $14.36  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: February 2004
Qty:
Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Annotation: Aurelia is a document of dreams, obsession, and insanity. One of the original "bohemians", Nerval was best known in his own day for parading a lobster on a pale-blue ribbon, and for his suicide (1855), hanging from a string he called the garter of the Queen of Sheba. Included are Robert Duncan's translations of Nerval's Chimeras.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6.07" W x 8.05" (0.76 lbs) 240 pages
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

A harrowing document of a descent into madness, by France's defining poet of bohemian romanticism

Aurelia is French poet and novelist G rard de Nerval's account of his descent into madness--a condition provoked in part by his unrequited passion for an actress named Jenny Colon. One of the original self-styled "bohemians," Nerval was best known in his own day for parading a lobster on a pale blue ribbon through the gardens of the Palais-Royal, and was posthumously notorious for his suicide in 1855, hanging from an apron string he called the garter of the Queen of Sheba. This hallucinatory document of dreams, obsession and insanity has fascinated artists such as Joseph Cornell, who cited passages from it to explain his own work; Antonin Artaud, who saw his own madness mirrored by Nerval's; and Andr Breton, who placed Nerval in the highest echelon of Surrealist heroes. Geoffrey Wagner's translation of Aur lia was first published by Grove Press in 1959, but has remained out of print for nearly 20 years. Also included in this volume are previously untranslated stories by Marc Lowenthal, and poet Robert Duncan's version of the sonnet cycle Chimeras, making this the most complete collection of Nerval's influential oeuvre ever published in English.