Aurélia
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| Author | Gérard de Nerval |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Genre | novella |
Publication date | 1855 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
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Aurélia ou le Rêve et la Vie (Aurélia, or Dream and Life) is a novella written by French writer Gérard de Nerval in 1855, at the very end of his life, with the aim to purge his emotions and to express his emotions, to himself as well as to his doctor, Emile Blanche, during his mental crises.
The subtitle, Dream and Life, is aimed to rehabilitate the role of dreams in a society that links it to madness.
The text, whose first part was published in the last few weeks of Nerval's life and whose second, unfinished, part was published a few months later, is about a narrator who hears news of the death of a woman whom he had "deified". He is increasingly convinced he himself will die soon. The text is part novella, part autobiography, part mystical dreams - and one of Nerval's greatest masterpieces.
Marcel Proust greatly admired Aurélia, and it was later hailed by André Breton as a precursor to Surrealism.
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