Abstract: The contingencies of Pandora’s publication in Le Mousquetaire have made the novella, according to Nerval’s own term, a “logogryph”,, that is, not only a “chimeric” creature, “born of the dreams of a sick person”, Horace would say, but a “monstrous” construction of language itself. This article studies, in the arrangement of manuscripts and in the interplay of intertextual references, the mode of composition of Pandora,, which is both paratactic and rhapsodic, and which is valid as the expression of a “supernaturalist” imagination.
