Gérard de Nerval
French writer, poet, essayist and translator (1808-1855) · France · Writers · Died at 46
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Something wrong?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.
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Félix Nadar 1820-1910 portraits Gérard de Nerval
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Cour de la maison de la rue de la Vieille-Lanterne où fut trouvé pendu Gérard de Nerval. Dessin inédit de Legrip (1855). G.39030verso
Gustave Doré - La Rue de la Vieille Lanterne
Gustave Doré, La Rue de la Vieille Lanterne The Suicide of Gérard de Nerval, 1855
Gérard de Nerval In memoriam
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Le Vieux Paris La rue de la Vieille Lanterne démolie en 1855. La grille où s'est pendu Général de Nerval, DIn their own words 2
, They will return, these Gods you have never stopped longing for. Time will bring back the order of ancient days.
The Cantal of Auvergne corresponds to the Cantal of the Himalayas. The Merovingians are Indians or Persians or Trojans . . . .
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About this person
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.
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