From one storyteller to another, Henri de Régnier reader of Gérard de Nerval About a preface (1920) for La Main enchantée, histoire macaronique (1832)

What affinities between Nerval and Henri de Régnier? The young Symbolist poet was initially reserved for the storyteller in prose, but twenty years later, the reissue of a youth tale by Nerval is the occasion of a tribute preface in the form of a dream story. But nothing could be better for both of them than this fraternal encounter under the sign of books, fantasy and dream, where, in the kingdom of Chimera, the dreamer and the dream character could well switch their roles.