Leiris i Nerval
Leiris and Nerval

Summary/Abstract: Gerard de Nerval inspired the Surrealists not only by means of his extraordinary works or alchemical interests but also by the fact that he was the first to have discovered the possibility of „rendering life a metaphor”. Nerval appears in one of Leiris’ dreams as a phantom; in this manner, he plays in the Leiris imagination a role which he indubitably longed for while alive: he becomes a dream …

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