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by: Aloysius Bertrand, T. E. D. Klein
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780974071121
ISBN: 0974071129
Label: Hollywood Comics
Manufacturer: Hollywood Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 232
Publication Date: May 31, 2004
Publisher: Hollywood Comics
Sales Rank: 842621
Studio: Hollywood Comics
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Aloysius Bertrand's ground-breaking collection of prose ballads was published in 1842, a year after his death at 34. Gaspard de la Nuit combines the haunting gothic imagery of Hoffman with the colorful romantic verve of Victor Hugo. In it, you will meet Scarbo the vampire dwarf, Ondine, the faerie princess of the waters, and an unforgettable assortment of lepers, alchemists, beggars, swordsmen and ghosts. Gaspard de la Nuit inspired Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, the Surrealist Movement and composer Maurice Ravel, who wrote a suite of virtuoso piano pieces patterned after it.
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The book's thorough introduction offers valuable insight into this pivotal author, Aloysius Bertrand, and his contribution to the evolution of modern poetry. The prose poems themselves are beautifully translated, steeped with haunting images of the middle ages--sublime, brutal, and devilish at a turn. One clearly sees how Gaspard de la Nuit influences the prose poems of Charles Baudelaire (published as Paris Spleen). Altogether, this is a beautiful and significant book.
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