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Nerval

Riad Sattouf

I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere

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2084: The end of the world

Alain Gachet: http://www.ouest-france.fr/afrique-alain-gachet-un-sourcier-au-secours-de-lafrique-3783965 https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2015/ps_1.html http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/sep/11/kenya-water-discovery-drought-relief

Articles in French about the Hamadache-Daoud controversy, all retrieved 8 Nov 2015: http://www.huffpostmaghreb.com/faycal-sahbi/audela-de-la-fatwa-pour-r_b_6390004.html http://www.huffpostmaghreb.com/farhat-othman/pour-kamel-daoud_b_6354064.html http://www.huffpostmaghreb.com/2014/12/17/kamel-daoud-fatwa_n_6338790.html http://www.huffpostmaghreb.com/2014/12/16/kamel-daoud-menace-salafi_n_6335970.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/05/books/an-algerian-author-fights-back-against-a-fatwa.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/magazine/stranger-still.html

Books about Nerval: Ange-Pierre Leca, Et le choléra s'abattit sur Paris, 1832, Albin-Michel, 1998 ISBN 2-226-01549-3

Major works

Voyage en Orient (1851). A fictionalized account of Nerval's travels throughout the Ottoman Empire in the early 1840s.
Les Illuminés, où les précurseurs du socialisme (1852). Six narrative portraits of historical figures.
Les Filles du Feu (1854). A volume of short stories that includes the novella Sylvie, and the collection of sonnets Les Chimères.
Promenades et Souvenirs (1854-1855). Nerval returns to the Valois of his childhood and reminisces.
Aurélia ou le rêve et la vie (1855). A semi-autobiographical account of hallucinations, dreams, and asylum visits.

Nerval's poetry is characterized by Romantic deism. His passion for the "spirit world" was matched by a negative view of the material one: "This life is a hovel and a place of ill-repute. I'm ashamed that God should see me here."