Aurelia

…After returning to Japan, he devoted himself to writing such works as “Journey to the Orient” (1851) and “The Visionaries” (1852), but after 1849 his attacks recurred, and he was repeatedly hospitalized and discharged until he was found hanged in a back alley of Paris in 1855. However, many of his masterpieces, such as the collection of short stories “Daughters of Fire” (1854, with “Psalms of Fantasies” at the end) and the novel “Aurélia” (1855), were written in his later years, when he suffered frequent bouts of insanity. Nerval was interested in mysticism from an early age, and in addition to occult sciences such as alchemy, Kabbalah, and astrology, he read many books on ancient religions of the West and the East. …

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…帰国後は《東方紀行》(1851)や《幻視者たち》(1852)などの著作に没頭したが，49年以降発作が再発し，55年にパリの裏町で縊死体で発見されるまで，入院と退院を繰り返した。だが，短編小説集《火の娘たち》(1854，巻末に《幻想詩編》が付く)や小説《オーレリア》(1855)等の傑作の多くは，この狂気の発作が頻繁に訪れた晩年に書かれている。　ネルバルは早くから神秘思想に興味を持ち，錬金術やカバラや占星術などの神秘学のほかに，西洋や東洋の古代宗教に関する多数の書物を読みあさった。…

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