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An autobiographical fiction of major appeal.

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Lindo de forma quase enlouquecedora. Uma descida ao inferno, à mente humana, ao hospício, às visões. Nerval é um visionário.
Weird, gorgeous, great little book. Memoir of the author's madness, love story, secret history of the world, variations and permutations of the above. Too few people know this book.
Romantisch curiosum: het dromenboek van een getormenteerde ziel die door de straten van Parijs zwalpt op zoek naar de grens tussen de droom, slaap en de dood. "De slaap neemt een derde van ons leven in beslag. Hij brengt troost voor de verdrietelijkheden van de dag of straf voor de genietingen; maar ik heb de slaap nooit als rust ervaren. Na een paar minuten van verdoving begint er een nieuw leven, los van de wetten van tijd en ruimte, zoals ons dat waarschijnlijk na de dood te wachten staat. Wie weet of er niet een band bestaat tussen die twee levens en of de ziel die niet nu al kan aanhalen?"

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Gérard de Nerval was the pen name of the French poet, essayist and translator Gérard Labrunie, one of the most essential Romantic French poets. He was born on May 22, 1808, in Paris, France. Nerval first became noted because of his translation of Goethe's Faust (1828). Gérard de Nerval's first nervous breakdown occurred during 1841. In a series show more of novellas, collected as Les Illuminés, ou les précurseurs du socialisme (1852), he described feelings that followed his third breakdown. Increasingly poverty-stricken and disoriented, he committed suicide in 1855, hanging himself from a window grating. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Aldington, Richard (Translator)
Binder, Pearl (Illustrator)
Puranen, Rauni (Translator)
Radiguet, Chloé (Afterword)

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Canonical title*
Aurélia
Original title
Aurélia
Original publication date
1855
Original language*
Français
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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
843.7Literature & rhetoricFrench LiteratureFrench fictionConstitutional monarchy 1815–48
LCC
PQ2260 .G36 .A8Language and LiteratureFrench, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literaturesFrench literatureModern literature19th century
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Paper, Ebook
ISBNs
33
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