Browse by Artist: DE NERVAL, GERARD

Artist:	DE NERVAL, GERARD
Title:	Aurelia And Other Writings
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	EC NERVAL

"An account of Nerval's unrequited passion for an actress and subsequent descent into madness, this book was a favorite of artist Joseph Cornell's, and its author was championed by both Marcel Proust and André Breton. 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 for his suicide in 1855, hanging from an apron string he called the garter of the Queen of Sheba. Geoffrey Wagner's translation of Aurélia was first published by Grove Press in 1959, but has remained out of print for nearly twenty years. Included are previously untranslated stories, and poet Robert Duncan's version of the sonnet cycle 'Chimeras' -- making this the most complete collection of Nerval ever published in English."

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