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Louis Jacques Napoléon Bertrand, better known by his pen name Aloysius Bertrand (20 April 1807 — 29 April 1841), was a French Romantic poet, playwright and journalist. He is famous for having introduced prose poetry in French literature, and is considered a forerunner of the Symbolist movement.
Apr 25, 2024 · Aloysius Bertrand (born April 20, 1807, Ceva, Piedmont [Italy]—died April 29, 1841, Paris, France) was a writer whose Gaspard de la nuit (“Gaspard of the Night”) introduced the prose poem into French literature and was a source of inspiration to the Symbolist poets and later to the Surrealists.
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Gaspard de la Nuit — Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot (English: Gaspard of the Night — Fantasies in the Manner of Rembrandt and Callot) is the compilation of prose poems by Italian-born French poet Aloysius Bertrand.
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Louis Jacques Napoléon Bertrand, dit Aloysius Bertrand 1 est un poète, dramaturge et journaliste français, né le 20 avril 1807 à Ceva ( Piémont) et mort le 29 avril 1841 à l' hôpital Necker de Paris. Considéré comme l'inventeur du poème en prose, il est notamment l'auteur d'une œuvre posthume passée à la postérité, Gaspard de la nuit ( 1842 ).
Learn about Aloysius Bertrand, a pioneer of prose poetry and a forerunner of Symbolism. Discover his masterpiece Gaspard de la Nuit, a collection of supernatural and fantastical vignettes.
Sep 18, 2017 · The canonical critical consideration to which Aloysius Bertrand has been subjected has not served him or his works well, and Gosetti’s painstaking research enables us to glimpse quite how much we have been missing.
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Aloysius Bertrand (1807-1841) was a French poet who wrote only one book, Gaspard de la Nuit, a collection of prose poems in a style influenced by Rembrandt and Callot. The book was published posthumously in 1842 and influenced many later writers, such as Baudelaire, Mallarme and Breton.
