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Gérard de Nerval. Essential works

The Rector of the Catholic University for years made an important contribution to the dissemination of the best of literature, Peruvian and universal through the collections "essential works" and "The Hidden Spring," both directed by critic and poet Ricardo Silva-Santisteban. The most recent of these deliveries is also one of the most ambitious: Gérard de Nerval. Essential works (PUCP, 2010), a bilingual edition in three volumes of the best productions of the great French writer.

Storyteller, playwright and poet, Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855) led a life quite difficult, especially for its crisis of madness. But these crises also inspired some of his best works, like the novel Aurelia (1855), one of the key texts of French romanticism. Dreams and hallucinations are mixed there with cosmogonic myths and stories of diverse cultures, a set that could only be properly appreciated half a century later, from the proposals of psychoanalysis. This extensive selection

Essential Works of Gerard de Nerval is the work of Ricardo Silva-Santisteban, who has spent years collecting the texts (even in French libraries) and its translation, in addition to being the author of the prefatory essay ( nearly a hundred pages) and detailed chronology of the life of French writer. It also includes illustrations of the original editions, as well as a broad "iconography" of portraits and photographs of manuscripts.

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