
Little Castles of Bohemia
Prose and Poetry
Gerard de Nerval(Author)
Wakefield Press
Published on 21. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-962728-08-9 (ISBN)
Description
Fully translated into English for the first time, Nerval's autobiographical anthology encompasses his complete literary career, which influenced such authors as Marcel Proust, Andre Breton and Antonin Artaud
Though Gerard de Nerval had originally intended it to be a small anthology of his early poetry, his 1853 Little Castles of Bohemia ended up as something more. As could be said of all his last works, the book was an effort at stability: worn out and financially impoverished, Nerval gathered his past writing in an attempt at assembling some sort of posterity. The melancholic, wandering castles presented here are gathered from the range of Nerval's literary life, from his autobiographical reminiscences of the bohemian neighborhood of Le Doyenne to the lyrical "odelettes" that established Nerval as a poet early on, the one-act Corilla and the mystical sonnets of madness that concluded his career. This bilingual volume containing the first full English translation (together with the original French verse) includes woodcut illustrations by Alfred Prunaire from a rare 1912 edition.
Gerard de Nerval (1808-55) was a writer, poet and translator who wedded French and German romanticism and transformed his research into mystic thought and his bouts of mental illness into such visionary works as Aurelia, or Dream and Life.
Though Gerard de Nerval had originally intended it to be a small anthology of his early poetry, his 1853 Little Castles of Bohemia ended up as something more. As could be said of all his last works, the book was an effort at stability: worn out and financially impoverished, Nerval gathered his past writing in an attempt at assembling some sort of posterity. The melancholic, wandering castles presented here are gathered from the range of Nerval's literary life, from his autobiographical reminiscences of the bohemian neighborhood of Le Doyenne to the lyrical "odelettes" that established Nerval as a poet early on, the one-act Corilla and the mystical sonnets of madness that concluded his career. This bilingual volume containing the first full English translation (together with the original French verse) includes woodcut illustrations by Alfred Prunaire from a rare 1912 edition.
Gerard de Nerval (1808-55) was a writer, poet and translator who wedded French and German romanticism and transformed his research into mystic thought and his bouts of mental illness into such visionary works as Aurelia, or Dream and Life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
10 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-962728-08-9 (9781962728089)
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