Little Castles of Bohemia: Prose and Poetry

Fully translated into English for the first time, Nerval's autobiographical anthology encompasses his complete literary career, which influenced such authors as Marcel Proust, André Breton and Antonin Artaud

Though Gérard 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 gather...