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Sylvie: Recollections of Valois

Nerval, Gérard De

Literature & Fiction

Ams Pr Inc

The Women of Cairo: Scenes of Life on the Orient

History

Middle East

Three outstanding prose works and a selection of poetry by the great 19th-century French writer, translated with a Critical Introduction and Notes by Geoffrey Wagner. CONTENTS: Introduction; Sylvie, Emilie, Aurelia; Poetry (with English translations). 257 pages.

Selected Writings

Reference

Univ of Michigan Pr

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the French by William Stone. A precursor of the symbolists and the surreallists, Gérard de Nerval has fascinated many major literary figures, including Proust and Breton, Eliot and Apollinaire, Michaux and Leiris. The great sonnet cycle, in its marvellous combination of spell, quest and dream, continues to fascinate writers, readers and that special category of writerly readers, translators. Menard's translator is the gifted young poet William Stone, who explains his work in a strongly worded essay: "like a partly submerged crocodile, with one amber eye half open, the foreign line sits, waiting for the anxious translator to make a move."

Les Chimeres

Rinsler, Norma

Poetry

Continuum International Publishing Group

Les chimères (Athlone French poets)

Athlone Press [distributed in the U.S.A. by Humanities Press, New York]

So Gerard de Nerval, poet, dreamer, visionary, journeyed to the Orient to savour all the wonder and mystery he believed to be there - and found what he dreamed of. In Cairo, he bought Zetnaybia, a beautiful slave girl, then later with Caliph Hakim his travels went beyond the Orient and even Earth itself as they voyaged on hashish...

Journey to the Orient

HarperCollins Distribution Services

"In 1844 the French painter and poet Gerard de Nerval travelled to the Levant, to Cairo, Beirut and Constantinople, the 'font of drug-taking', in search of hashish, new and wondrous experiences, the occult, encounters with the culture of the Middle East and, especially, the pursuit of the Eternal Female." "Journey to the Orient is the result of these adventures. Whether he is describing the return of the pilgrims from Mecca or the niceties of buying a Javanese slave-girl, Nerval has an eye for the real which is at once fantastic and humorous." "Impressionistic and lively, immediate and nervous, the style has not dated, and with his wild fluctuations of mood, the swashbuckling narrator reminds the reader of Henry Miller. Journey to the Orient is one of the most important literary rediscoveries of the past half-century."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Peter Owen Ltd

Travel

Asia

New York University Press

Immel Publishing Ltd

Gérard de Nerval's sonnets `Les Chimères' were first published as a group in 1854, a year before his suicide at the age of 46. The poems were nearly a dozen years in the making, and their genius was slow to be accepted. Now they are generally regarded as a key work in nineteenth-century poetry, linking romanticism and symbolism. The tributes to Nerval come from writers as different as Proust, Arthur Symons and T.S. Eliot, who quoted him in the last lines of `The Waste Land'. This edition presents the poems in French with a facing translation which, while aiming at an exacting verbal fidelity, is intended to be read as a poetic sequence in English. Both Richard Holmes, who contributes an essay on Nerval's symbolic method, and Peter Jay, who responds with an account of the translation problems, consider that for all their renowned obscurity, the poems are direct and enormously moving. They believe that the spiritual quest at the heart of these twelve sonnets is as vital as ever.

The Chimeras (English and French Edition)

Black Swan Books

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