Gaspard de la Nuit

aka Gaspard de la Nuit — Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot [Gaspard of the Night - Fantasies in the Manner of Rembrandt and Callot]

Gaspard of the Night

Author

Aloysius Bertrand

Language

French

Year

1842

Country

France

Genre

Poetry Collection

modern europe

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Gaspard de la Nuit — Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot is the compilation of prose poems by Italian-born French poet Aloysius Bertrand. Considered one of the first examples of modern prose poetry, it was published in the year 1842, one year after Bertrand's death from tuberculosis, as a manuscript dated 1836, by his friend David d'Angers. The text includes a short address to Victor Hugo and another to Charles Nodier, and a Memoir of Bertrand written by Sainte-Beuve was included in the original 1842 edition.