Le flou chez Gérard de Nerval
Vagueness in the work of Gérard de Nerval

Summary/Abstract: The art of Gérard de Nerval — visionary poet and vagrant prose writer — is primarily bringing together in his work touching appearances of reality. This romantic writer scrutinises reality, but not to the purpose of clarification and enlisting into patterns. A poetics of profusion and blending is activated and causes a dissolution of the clean and clear form. By using these antithetical pairs of the open and the closed, the deep and the high, the light and the dark — the spatio-temporal translation of his metaphysical drama —, Nerval creates an unusual literary geography. The Nervalian fictional world is thus recomposed by reflections, vague states and complex trajectories and these few uses of vagueness in his prose have aroused interest in the communication presented below. We examined some uses of the real/vague dialectics as it manifests itself in his prose work Sylvie and Aurélia.

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