Flemish School, Old Paris, & Night & Its Spells

by Aloysius Bertrand

Poetry. Translated from the French by Gian Lombardo. This book includes the first half of Bertrand's Gaspard of the Night: Fantasies in the Manner of Rembrandt and Callot (published in 1842), which is considered to be the first Western example of the modern prose poem. His work has been important for many French writers, from Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Mallarme to the Surrealists and writers of the present day. Constructed almost like a hall of mirrors,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965616177
• ISBN13: 9780965616171
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Quale Press
• Length: 35 Pages