User:Gerard de Lafayette/sandbox

Articles to improve:

Nerval

Riad Sattouf

I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere

Here are the pages I'm working on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gerard_de_Lafayette/sandbox/Laure_Murat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gerard_de_Lafayette/sandbox/Gérard_de_Nerval

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."