Gerard de Nerval's sonnets Les Chimeres were first published as a group in 1854, a year before his suicide at the age of forty-six. The poems were nearly a dozen years in the making, and their genius was slow to be accepted. Now they are generally regarded as a key work of nineteenth century poetry, linking romanticism and symbolism. This bilingual edition is complemented by two essays; the first on Nerval's symbolic method by Richard Holmes, the second on the problems of translation by Peter Jay.
- ISBN10 0933806345
- ISBN13 9780933806344
- Publish Date 1 March 1985 (first published 1 January 1973)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Black Swan Books, Limited
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 75
- Language English