De Nerval Gerard
De Nerval Gerard - The Illuminated; Or The Precursors Of Socialism Tales And Portraits - Paperback
De Nerval Gerard - The Illuminated; Or The Precursors Of Socialism Tales And Portraits - Paperback
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Description: Poetical biographies of six radical thinkers from Cagliostro to Restif de la Bretonne by the leading figure of French Romanticism First published in French in 1852, The Illuminated was the first of a string of G rard de Nerval's late works that would culminate in his posthumous fantastical autobiography Aur lia in 1855. The Illuminated collects six portraits of men whom Nerval mysteriously dubbed precursors of socialism visionaries who together formed an alternative history of France and a backdrop to a mystical form of madness that Nerval ultimately claimed for himself. Nerval here presents the reader with Raoul Spifame a mad lawyer who imagined himself to be Henry II; the Abb de Bucquoy a man who opposed the monarchy and whose amazing escapes suggested the possession of magical powers; Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne the 18th - century theosophist who defined God in human terms rather than spiritual; the Count Alessandro di Cagliostro the famous magus and alchemist; Jacques Cazotte author of The Devil in Love who created a synthesis between hermetic ideas and Catholic thought; and Quintus Aucler a lawyer who sought to revive paganism in the unstable world of French society in the immediate aftermath of the Revolution of 1789. An overlooked work by Nerval The Illuminated brings together the picturesque and pathos a peculiar gallery of portraits that blur the boundaries between mysticism and mystification. G rard de Nerval (1808 55) was a writer poet and translator who wedded French and German Romanticism and transformed his research into mystic thought and his bouts of mental illness into such visionary works as Aur lia.
Title: The Illuminated; Or The Precursors Of Socialism Tales And Portraits
Author(s): De Nerval Gerard
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Barcode: 9781939663740
Pages: 480 Pages
Publication Date: 8/23/2022
Category: Classic Fiction
Description: Poetical biographies of six radical thinkers from Cagliostro to Restif de la Bretonne by the leading figure of French Romanticism First published in French in 1852, The Illuminated was the first of a string of G rard de Nerval's late works that would culminate in his posthumous fantastical autobiography Aur lia in 1855. The Illuminated collects six portraits of men whom Nerval mysteriously dubbed precursors of socialism visionaries who together formed an alternative history of France and a backdrop to a mystical form of madness that Nerval ultimately claimed for himself. Nerval here presents the reader with Raoul Spifame a mad lawyer who imagined himself to be Henry II; the Abb de Bucquoy a man who opposed the monarchy and whose amazing escapes suggested the possession of magical powers; Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne the 18th - century theosophist who defined God in human terms rather than spiritual; the Count Alessandro di Cagliostro the famous magus and alchemist; Jacques Cazotte author of The Devil in Love who created a synthesis between hermetic ideas and Catholic thought; and Quintus Aucler a lawyer who sought to revive paganism in the unstable world of French society in the immediate aftermath of the Revolution of 1789. An overlooked work by Nerval The Illuminated brings together the picturesque and pathos a peculiar gallery of portraits that blur the boundaries between mysticism and mystification. G rard de Nerval (1808 55) was a writer poet and translator who wedded French and German Romanticism and transformed his research into mystic thought and his bouts of mental illness into such visionary works as Aur lia.
Title: The Illuminated; Or The Precursors Of Socialism Tales And Portraits
Author(s): De Nerval Gerard
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Barcode: 9781939663740
Pages: 480 Pages
Publication Date: 8/23/2022
Category: Classic Fiction
