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Yet, this was a vanishing world. In future, we will find out whether this modern hospital can gain a similar place in the literature as the old one. Manon Lescaut Oxford World Classics. Oxford University Press, Both French and English texts available on www. Second edition, , titled: Penguin, ; included under the title: The King of Bedlam; Raoul Spifame.
French text available from fr. Chains, strait-jackets and armed guards seem far away. Perhaps because Mr A. Pugin was an artist who specialized in architectural drawings, and used the figures only as fillers. In Nerval, the topos of Oriental disguise weaves together the Arabian Nights, the visual sources of inspiration, the shimmer and glamour of theatrical illusion, and the overarching theme of mad- ness.
Nerval was less a traveler reporting on his adventures with Ori- entals than a character in his own fiction. Gervais, based on an earlier daguerreotype by A. Legros captures the ambiguous doubling allowed by the exotic disguise. The fragile miracle of metamorphosis through disguise offers a fleeting synthesis between dream world and real world, in which the dream caliph is, albeit briefly, the real caliph.
University of California, Santa Barbara Notes 1. See also Jullien Burton wrote this ironic caption across a photograph of him- self in native dress, slumped in a most unbritish posture on the ground. The picture, and the cap- tion, were used by D. Kennedy for his biography of Burton.
Letter from Gautier to Nerval, , quoted in Dahab, online publication. Nerval was institutionalized for the first time in Dr.
Originally published in —40 as The Arabian Nights Entertainments and accompa- nied by a large volume of Notes and Commentaries on the Text see Lane On the various linguistic instances of cultural mis- communication in Nerval, see Moussa We also recall that the slave indignantly rejects her freedom: See Roubert, online publication. More recently, on the links between Gautier, Nerval and Orientalist painting, see Amelinckx 1—11; Brahimi —; and Pouillon 55— II, ; see Dahab, online publication.
Journal de Constantinople, 6 septembre Nerval I, Works cited Amelinckx, Frans. Romantic Border Crossings, Aldershot, England: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution. Burton, Richard Francis translator and editor. Charpentier, , 2 volumes. Slatkine Reprints, , tome 2. Slatkine Reprints, , III: Slatkine Reprints, , tome VII.