Aurélia

Aurélia ou le rêve et la vie. [Aurélia or Dream and Life] by Gérard de Nerval

Shortly before he committed suicide, Nerval wrote the story of his own madness, his incarceration in an asylum, and his subsequent recovery. Although the illness itself is characterized by the overflowing of dream into reality, Nerval believes that the key to his cure lies in the signs and symbols in his dreams.

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(English) Nerval, Gérard de. Aurélia or Dream and Life. Demons of the Night: Tales of the Fantastic, Madness and the Supernatural from Nineteenth-Century France. Ed. Joan Kessler. U Chicago P, 1995.

(French) Nerval, Gérard de. Aurélia ou le rêve et la vie. [Aurélia or Dream and Life]. Paris: Pocket, 1994.