Gaspard de la Nuit

Louis Bertrand

Gaspard de la Nuit
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Editorium
Country
Published
28 April 2009
Pages
108
ISBN
9781434116116

Gaspard de la Nuit

Louis Bertrand

(In the original French.) Gaspard de la Nuit, Louis Bertrand’s classic work of poetic and fantastic literature, combines the haunting gothic imagery of Hoffman with the colorful romantic verve of Victor Hugo. In it, you will meet Scarbo the vampire dwarf; Ondine, the faerie princess of the waters; and an unforgettable assortment of lepers, alchemists, beggars, swordsmen, and ghosts. The book inspired Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarme, and composer Maurice Ravel, who wrote a suite of virtuoso piano pieces patterned after it. It also marked the appearance of the modern prose poem and was a watershed of inspiration for the Parnassian, Symbolist, Surrealist, and Imagist poets. A wonderful and very strange book. Newly designed and typeset in a 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

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