G�rard de Nerval (1808 � 1855)
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Aur�lia is a document of dreams, obsession, and insanity. An account of Nerval�s unrequited passion for an actress and subsequent descent into madness, this book was a favorite of artist Joseph Cornell�s, and its author was championed by both Marcel Proust and Andr� Breton. One of the original self-styled "bohemians," Nerval was best known in his own day for parading a lobster on a pale blue ribbon through the gardens of the Palais-Royal, and for his suicide in 1855, hanging from an apron string he called the garter of the Queen of Sheba. Geoffrey Wagner�s translation of Aur�lia was first published by Grove Press in 1959, but has remained out of print for nearly twenty years. Included are previously untranslated stories, and poet Robert Duncan�s version of the sonnet cycle "Chimeras"� making this the most complete collection of Nerval ever published in English. --from the publisher
Biography
G�rard de Nerval (May 22, 1808 � January 26, 1855) was the nom-de-plume of the French poet, essayist and translator G�rard Labrunie, the most essentially Romantic among French poets.
Aur�lie (1855), G�rard de Nerval's fantasy-ridden interior autobiography� "Our dreams are a second life," he wrote� which influenced the Surrealists.
The influence of de Nerval's insistence on the significance of dreams on the Surrealist movement was fully emphasised by Andr� Breton. The writers Marcel Proust and Ren� Daumal were also greatly influenced by de Nerval's work, as was Artaud. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_de_Nerval [Jun 2006]
Aurelia (1855) - Gerard de Nerval
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"Nerval possessed to a tee the spirit with which we claim a kinship." � Andr� Breton, Manifesto of Surrealism
"Each time I re-read Aur�lia, a new shock of certainty in the pit of my stomach opens the eye to my heart: so I was observed! I was not alone in this world!" � Ren� Daumal
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