Gérard de Nerval (bahasa Prancis: [ʒeʁaʁdənɛʁval]; 22 Mei1808 – 26 Januari1855) adalah nama pena dari penulis, penyair, dan penerjemah PrancisGérard Labrunie, seorang tokoh utama Romantisisme, yang terkenal karena novel dan puisinya, terutama koleksi Les Filles du feu (The Daughters of Fire), termasuk novella Sylvie dan puisi "El Desdichado". Melalui terjemahannya, Nerval memainkan peran utama dalam memperkenalkan pembaca Prancis pada karya-karya penulis romantis Jerman, termasuk Klopstock, Schiller, Bürger dan Goethe. Karyanya kemudian menggabungkan puisi dan jurnalisme dalam konteks fiksi dan memengaruhi Marcel Proust. Novella terakhirnya, Aurélia [fr], mempengaruhi André Breton dan Surealisme.
Gérard Labrunie lahir di Paris pada 22 Mei1808.[1] Ibundanya, Marie Marguerite Antoinette Laurent, adalah putri seorang penjual pakaian,[2] dan ayahandanya, Étienne Labrunie, adalah seorang dokter muda yang dengan sukarela bekerja sebagai petugas medis militer di bawah Napoleon.[3]
Sowerby, Benn. The disinherited; the life of Gérard de Nerval, 1808–1855. New York: New York University Press, 1974. Print.
Kritik (buku)
Ahearn, Edward J. "Visionary Insanity: Nerval's Aurélia." Visionary Fictions: Apocalyptic Writing from Blake to the Modern Age. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Print.
Jeanneret, Michel. La lettre perdue: Ecriture et folie dans l'œuvre de Nerval. Paris: Flammarion, 1978. Print.
Gordon, Rae Beth (2014). "The Enchanted Hand: Schlegel's Arabesque in Nerval." In: Ornament, Fantasy, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century French Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Jung, Carl Gustav (1945/2015). On Psychological and Visionary Art: Notes from C. G. Jung's Lecture on Gérard de Nerval's "Aurélia". Ed. Craig E Stephenson, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Rhodes, Solomon A. (1951). Gérard de Nerval, 1808–1855: Poet, Traveler, Dreamer. New York: Philosophical Library.
Lang, Andrew (1892). "Gérard de Nerval." In: Letters on Literature. London and New York: Longmans, Green & Co., pp. 147–156.
Kritik (artikel koran)
Blackman, Maurice (1986–87). "Byron and the First Poem of Gérard de Nerval," Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. XV, No. 1/2, pp. 94–107.
Bray, Patrick M. (2006). "Lost in the Fold: Space and Subjectivity in Gérard de Nerval's 'Généalogie' and Sylvie," French Forum, Vol. XXXI, No. 2, pp. 35–51.
Carroll, Robert C. (1976). "Illusion and Identity: Gérard de Nerval and Rétif's 'Sara'," Studies in Romanticism, Vol. XV, No. 1, pp. 59–80.
Carroll, Robert C. (1976). "Gérard de Nerval: Prodigal Son of History," Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. IV, No. 3, pp. 263–273.
DuBruck, Alfred (1974–1975). "Nerval and Dumas in Germany," Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. III, No. 1/2, pp. 58–64.
Duckworth, Colin (1965). "Eugène Scribe and Gérard de Nerval 'Celui Qui Tient la Corde Nous Étrangle'," The Modern Language Review, Vol. LX, No. 1, pp. 32–40.
Knapp, Bettina L. (1974–75). "Gérard de Nerval's 'Isis' and the Cult of the Madonna," Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. III, No. 1/2, pp. 65–79.
Knapp, Bettina L. (1976). "Gérard de Nerval: The Queen of Sheba and the Occult," Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. IV, No. 3, pp. 244–257.