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Gaspard de la Nuit (1842)

by Aloysius Bertrand

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(In the original French.) "Gaspard de la Nuit," Louis Bertrand's classic work of poetic and fantastic literature, combines the haunting gothic imagery of Hoffman with the colorful romantic verve of Victor Hugo. In it, you will meet Scarbo the vampire dwarf; Ondine, the faerie princess of the waters; and an unforgettable assortment of lepers, alchemists, beggars, swordsmen, and ghosts. The book inspired Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarm , and composer Maurice Ravel, who wrote a suite of virtuoso piano pieces patterned after it. It also marked the appearance of the modern prose poem and was a watershed of inspiration for the Parnassian, Symbolist, Surrealist, and Imagist poets. A wonderful and very strange book. Newly designed and typeset in a 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.… (more)
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Aloysius Bertrand (1807 - 1841), escritor francés afincado en Dijon y luego en París, llevó una existencia miserable. Murió tísico a los treinta y cuatro años dejando un volumen de poemas en prosa: "Gaspar de la Nuit" (1842) --narraciones fantásticas a la manera de Caillot y de Rembrand. Este libro se incorporó a la tradición romántica de los temas de ensueño y del inconsciente. De él se desprende un arte refinado como el de un grabador, unido a una emoción interior y profunda que nos sumerge en un extraño mundo onírico. Tomando como maestros a Hugo, Chateaubriand y Byron, Aloysius Bertrand injerta en la colorida truculencia de la escuela francesa las místicas fantasías del romanticismo germánico. Puede considerarse, por tanto, como un espléndido compendio del Romanticismo. En su prólogo a su "Spleen de París" Baudelaire, en quien influenció, considera la obra como precursora de la poesía moderna y, años después, le haría exclamar a André Bretón: "Aloysius Bertrand, surreslista en el tiempo". ( )
  Eucalafio | Oct 9, 2020 |
L'œuvre de Bertrand est assez inclassable. Celui en qui l'on voit l'inventeur des poèmes en prose, repris et développés par Charles Baudelaire avec un indicible talent, propose dans cette œuvre un certain nombre de petites photographies dans le goût médiéval... Médiéval à la sauce Viollet le duc ou Walter Scott, c'est à dire empreint d'un romantisme où se débattent des sabbats de sorcières, des gargouilles ventrues, des lansquenets querelleurs, etc. Aloysius Bertrand aime les mots. Il les savoure, les pétris entre ses doigts avant de les jeter sur le papier. Il est vrai que cela donne un recueil de poésie au style un peu daté mais tout se lit parfaitement et l'impression générale qui est donnée est simplement celle que l'on a lorsqu'on se plonge dans la contemplation d'une miniature dans un beau livre d'images.

Ce recueil de "poésies" est à lire au moins une fois, plus si affinités. ( )
2 vote Veilleur_de_nuit | Jan 12, 2011 |
Med ett enda, posthumt utgivet verk, har den franske skalden Aloysius (Louis) Bertrand, 1807-1841, förvärvat sig ett aktat namn i litteraturens historia. Det är en samling prosadikter, de första i sitt slag i Frankrike, där författaren med raffinerad ordkonst frammanar människor och miljöer, ofta svepta i drömmens eller "det omedvetnas" skimrande slöja. ( )
1 vote Jannemangan | Aug 13, 2008 |
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Bertrand, Aloysiusprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Bordewijk, F.Introductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Koornstra, Metten T.Illustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Nuopponen, TommiTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Salmela, AkiTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed

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(In the original French.) "Gaspard de la Nuit," Louis Bertrand's classic work of poetic and fantastic literature, combines the haunting gothic imagery of Hoffman with the colorful romantic verve of Victor Hugo. In it, you will meet Scarbo the vampire dwarf; Ondine, the faerie princess of the waters; and an unforgettable assortment of lepers, alchemists, beggars, swordsmen, and ghosts. The book inspired Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarm , and composer Maurice Ravel, who wrote a suite of virtuoso piano pieces patterned after it. It also marked the appearance of the modern prose poem and was a watershed of inspiration for the Parnassian, Symbolist, Surrealist, and Imagist poets. A wonderful and very strange book. Newly designed and typeset in a 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

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