Aloysius Bertrand’s Gaspard de la Nuit Beyond the Prose Poem
by
Valentina Gosetti
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Aloysius Bertrand’s Gaspard de la Nuit (1842) is a familiar title to music lovers, thanks to Ravel’s piano work of the same name, and to specialists of French literature, especially those interested in Baudelaire’s prose poetry. Yet until very recently the collection and its author have generally...