# Gérard de Nerval

> He walked a lobster on a leash through the Palais-Royal gardens, translated Goethe into French, and wrote hallucinatory prose that bridged Romanticism and Surrealism a century early. Nerval made madness literary.

*French writer, poet, essayist and translator (1808–1855)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1808-05-22
- **Died:** 1855-01-26
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born Gérard Labrunie in 1808, he took the pen name Nerval and became a central figure in French Romanticism, translating Goethe, Schiller, and other German Romantics for French audiences. His own work—poems, novellas, travel writing—blurred dream and reportage in ways that wouldn't be named until later: "El Desdichado" and the novella "Sylvie" appeared in Les Filles du feu, a collection that fused memory, longing, and hallucination. His final work, Aurélia ou le rêve et la vie, narrated his descent into mental illness as a kind of mystical journey. Breton would later claim it as a founding text of Surrealism. Nerval was found hanged from a Paris lamppost in January 1855.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 62.2 / 100
- **Momentum:** 19.5 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 24.7 / 100
- **Now attention:** 20.5 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
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## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Poetry, #Theatre, #Fiction, #Literature, #France, #Europe

## Sources
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_de_Nerval)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q191305)
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- [Jerar de Nerval](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerar_de_Nerval)
- [Жэрар дэ Нэрваль](https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%B4%D1%8D_%D0%9D%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C)
- [Жэрар дэ Нерваль](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%B4%D1%8D_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C)
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- [ژێرار دو نێرڤال](https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%98%DB%8E%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%AF%D9%88_%D9%86%DB%8E%D8%B1%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%84)
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