Selected Writings

Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction with his groundbreaking writings. This comprehensive selection of his works includes ''Aurélia'', the memoir of his madness; the haunting novella of love and memory ''Sylvie'' (considered to be a masterpiece ...