Le sense de la destinee chez Gerard de Nerval

Sienaert, Aletta Maria

Le sense de la destinee chez Gerard de Nerval

Master Thesis

1980

Publisher

University of Cape Town

Department

French Language and Literature

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Abstract

Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855), French author and poet, suffered his first mental breakdown.in 1841. In spite of treatment in a private asylum, the last years of his life were spent on the verge of mental collapse. The author's mental illness, however, did not impair his great literary output. In fact, his greatest works Les filles du feu and Chimères were written during this period. In our research, we set ourselves the goal of determining the way in which Nerval overcomes his destiny by the creation of literary works which are the antithesis of his mental disarray.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Keywords

French

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