The Huautla Caves system in Mexico has long been the Holy Grail of cavers. Fighting floods, cave-ins and Mazatec Indians who believe the caves are holy, caving teams have competed every year to be the first to prove the cave's depth. No-one has gone furth
Edition enrichie (Introduction, notes, dossier sur l'oeuvre, chronologie et bibliographie)Meme en dehors de "Sylvie," il y a chez Nerval une infusion omnipresente du souvenir, une chanson du temps passe qui s'envole et qui se devide a partir des rappels m
The story is about a hero's love for three women, all of whom he loses; a hymn to unattainable, unrequited love. The story begins when a paragraph in a newspaper plunges the narrator into his memories as a younger man. The perspective seems to shift back
Aurelia is French poet and novelist Gerard de Nerval's account of his descent into madness--a condition provoked in part by his unrequited passion for an actress named Jenny Colon. One of the original self-styled -bohemians, - Nerval was best known in his
So Gerard de Nerval, poet, dreamer, visionary, journeyed to the Orient to savour all the wonder and mystery he believed to be there - and found what he dreamed of. In Cairo, he bought Zetnaybia, a beautiful slave girl, then later with Caliph Hakim his tra
With this posthumously published anthology--a successor to his bestselling Italian Folktales--Italo Calvino, a contemporary surveyor of the otherwordly, pays homage to twenty-six of his nineteenth-century precursors. The resulting volume is both an educat
