"Victorian surrealism"

Steven mcquaryq at comcast.net
Mon Sep 18 09:10:03 CDT 2006


	I don't know anything about Nerval except that he was considered an  
influence on the Symbolist and Surrealists.  But an author whose  
books fall into P's time slot for AtD (and who was championed by  
Duchamp) is the weird Raymond Roussel.  Impressions of Africa is the  
one I've read, and the long poem La Vue which Robbe-Grillet liked.   
His writing method was very impersonal -- like P he shuns the  
autobiographical impulse.  I wonder if he'll make an appearance?


On Sep 17, 2006, at 10:10 PM, pynchonoid wrote:

> Gerard de
> Nerval. I especially like the story, perhaps
> apocryphal, of Nerval who, when asked why he walked a
> lobster on a leash in the streets of Paris and kept it
> as a pet, said, Because they know the secrets of the
> deep and they don't speak, or words to that effect; a
> sad suicide, too.

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