This selection of writings-the first such comprehensive gathering to appear in English-provides an overview of Nerval's work as a poet, belle-lettrist, short-story writer and autobiographer. In addition to "Aur?lia", the memoir of his madness, "Sylvie" (considered a 'masterpiece' by Proust), and the hermetic sonnets of "The Chimeras", this volume includes Nerval's Doppelg?nger tales and experimental fictions. Selections from his correspondence demonstrate...