Posted by Patrick D on July 01, 1999 at 13:57:36:
In Reply to: Vance's Poetry posted by Gabriele Guenther on June 30, 1999 at 16:00:30:
Sorry, Ela, but Gerard de Nerval was not a Surrealist, this literary (and much more than that) movement started in the 20th Century, Gerard de Nerval is a mid 19th century poet.
I don't remember that he led a lobster on a leash, this looks much more like a Dadaist attitude, much later....
All I remember of De Nerval, in fact, is that he had severe mental problems at the end of his life, and hanged himself in a street of Paris, where he was found , probably hanging from a gas lamp-post ...
Anyway, Navarth is mad too, so there is indeed a similitude, but I don't see Navarth hanging himself, except maybe to get some kick (and "lift") out of it !
P.
Ela wrote :
: It seems to me that Navarth's poetry (in Palace of Love etc.)
: and the character of Navarth seem to be based on the real poet
: Gérard de Nerval (France, middle last century).
: This was the Surrealist poet famous for walking often through
: Paris leading a lobster (alive and well) on a leash.
: Unfortunately, I don't know his work well enough to decide.
: Patrick Dusoulier, would you mind commenting here?
: Or anybody else knowledgable on this?