Muzyczne pejzaże w twórczości Gérarda de Nervala

Abstract

The literary space of Gérard de Nerval’s prose is woven from the narrator’s dreams and memories of places familiar to the author – those with resonant names, situated in the home region of Valois, and those which he visited during his hikes in Paris or Europe. All these places create a certain ‘magical geography’, as it was coined by Jean‑Pierre Richard. Music plays an important role in creating scenery in Nerval’s writing, in which the narrator perceives and creates space through the prism of sounds of folk songs or melody of the voice itself. Singing is a factor capable of changing the character of a given place and transforming it into, for example, a kind of opera stage. This paper analyses the influence of musical elements on the portrayal of autobiographic places in Nerval’s work.