This text is what remains of a study by Paul Bénichou on Nerval’s Chimères (including the poems that remain in manuscript form), a study that his death in 2001 interrupted. The whole consists of two components, part analytical, offering commentary, poem by poem, on six of the eighteen Chimères enumerated; the other part more synthetic, which tries to reconstitute through the poet’s writings the first known bout of madness he suffered in 1841 and its poetic effects.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques