Les Chimeres - Brossura

Nerval, Gerard De

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1848614039 ISBN 13: 9781848614031

Casa editrice: Shearsman Books, 2017

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Nerval is one of the most important writers of the French Romantic movement. His great sonnet cycle, Les Chimeres, in its marvellous combination of spell, quest and dream, continues to fascinate writers, readers, and translators. Will Stone's spirited English versions are accompanied by an essay, as well as by an introduction - written in 1949 - by the late Michael Hamburger, as well as commentary by Norma Rinsler, the doyenne of English Nervaliens.

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Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855) was the nom-de-plume of the French writer, poet, essayist and translator Gérard Labrunie. A major figure of French romanticism, he is best known for his poems and novellas, especially the collection Les Filles du feu (The Daughters of Fire), which includes the novella Sylvie and the poem "El Desdichado", also included in Les Chimères. He played a major role in introducing French readers to the works of German Romantic authors, including Schiller and Goethe. His later work investigated the relationship between poetry and madness, reality and fiction, and dreams and life. He was a major influence on Marcel Proust, André Breton and Surrealism.

Will Stone is a poet, essayist and literary translator. His first poetry collection Glaciation (Salt, 2007), won the international Glen Dimplex Award for poetry in 2008. A second collection Drawing in Ash appeared from Salt in May 2011. Shearsman Books republished these in 2015 and then published a third collection, The Sleepwalkers, in 2016. Menard Press published Will's first translation of Les Chimères in 1999. Arc Publications published To the Silenced - Selected Poems of Georg Trakl (2005) and Emile Verhaeren's Poems (2013). Georges Rodenbach's Poems appears in 2017, and Seagull Books will publish his Collected Poems of Georg Trakl in 2018.

Norma Rinsler is Professor Emeritus of French in the Uni-versity of London and a former Vice-Principal of King's College London. She is the author of important studies on Nerval. Her standard edition of Les Chimères appeared in 1973.

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• Editore: Shearsman Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1848614039
• ISBN 13: 9781848614031
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 64