Selected Writings

Gérard de Nerval

Original title: Selected writings

first published 1957 University of Michigan Press, 1970 paperback 257 pages

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"Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855), a contemporary of Poe, De Quincey, Gogol and Heine, introduced into French literature a mode of writing rooted in German romanticism yet already recognizably modernist in its explorations of the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction." "This selection of writings - the first such comprehensive gathering to appear in English - provid...

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Selected writings edition · 1999 · Penguin Books · 406 pages
Selected Writings paperback · 1970 · University of Michigan Press · 257 pages · 9780472061631
Selected Writings edition · 1970 · University of Michigan Press · 257 pages · 9780472091638

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