Gérard de Nerval knocked over a folding screen in Vienna and revealed that social decorum is just a shared stage set
Gérard de Nerval lived from 1808 to 1855, but it is worth setting aside from the start the image of the harmless dreamer that posterity pinned on him. During the winter of 1839 to 1840 he spent several months in Vienna, sent on a vague semi-diplomatic mission that he himself took seriously, at least for … CONTINUE READING →