Admired by both Proust and Breton, this,nineteenth century book was also
the favourite of,artist Joseph Cornell. An account of the author's,passion
for an actress and subsequent descent into,madness, AURELIA is a document
of dreams,obsessions, and insanity. One of the original,bohemians, Nerval
was well known in his day for,parading a lobster on a blue ribbon through
the,gardens of the Palais-Royal, and for his suicide,(1855), hanging from
an apron string he called the,garter of the Queen of Sheba.