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Publisher's commentsAurélia is a document of dreams, obsession, and insanity. An account of Nervals unrequited passion for an actress and subsequent descent into madness, this book was a favorite of artist Joseph Cornells, and its author was championed by both Marcel Proust and André Breton. One of the original self-styled bohemians, Nerval was best known in his own day for parading a lobster on a pale blue ribbon through the gardens of the Palais-Royal, and for his suicide in 1855, hanging from an apron string he called the garter of the Queen of Sheba. Geoffrey Wagners translation of Aurélia was first published by Grove Press in 1959, but has remained out of print for nearly twenty years. Included are previously untranslated stories, and poet Robert Duncans version of the sonnet cycle Chimeras making this the most complete collection of Nerval ever published in English.