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First edition, second issue, of a collection of Nerval’s writings on Germany.

German Romanticism had a great influence on Nerval, and he was drawn to the country, visiting it seven times. At the age of twenty, he published a translation of Faust which Goethe himself praised. His other translations, instrumental in introducing French readers to German Romanticism, include works by Schiller, Bürger, Klopstock, and Heine. Lorely opens with a long preface to the writer and critic Jules Janin, and continues with ‘Sensations d’un voyageur enthousiaste’, ‘Rhin et Flandre’, ‘Les Fêtes de Hollande’, and ‘Scènes de la vie allemande’: the first complete edition of the prose drama Leo Burckart (first edition 1839), written in collaboration with Alexandre Dumas père.

Carteret II, p. 219.

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