A review by quadruploni
Aurélia and Other Writings by Robert Duncan, Gérard de Nerval, Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, Marc Lowenthal, Gent Sturgeon

3.0

Having repeatedly come across Nerval in The Open Work and other writings by Umberto Eco—at a time when I was very much under the influence of the Italian—I was really pleased to find this handsome Damon & Naomi–published collection assigned in a seminar on fantastic literature in, I believe, 1997, and I offered to present on and write about it immediately. But it all seems like a dream now, and I can't remember much about the book, and I'm not sure what I would think of it now. I do remember that Nerval was known to take a lobster for a walk in a park, employing a blue—it must have been a blue—ribbon as a lead.