Aloysius Bertrand Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 7 pages of information about the life of Aloysius Bertrand.

Aloysius Bertrand Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 7 pages of information about the life of Aloysius Bertrand.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Aloysius Bertrand

Louis Bertrand, best known as Aloysius Bertrand and as the author of Gaspard de la Nuit: Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot (1842; translated as Louis "Aloysius" Bertrand's Gaspard de la Nuit: Fantasies in the Manner of Rembrandt and Callot, 1994), has been recognized as the founder of prose poetry in France since 1869, when Charles Baudelaire mentioned his influence in the preface of Petits poèmes en prose (Little Prose Poems): "C'est en feuilletant, pour la vingtième fois au moins, le fameux Gaspard de la Nuit . . . que l'idée m'est venue de tenter quelque chose d'analogue, et d'appliquer à la description de la vie moderne . . . le procédé qu'il avait appliqué à la peinture de la vie ancienne, si étrangement pittoresque" (It was while leafing through, for at least the twentieth time, the famous Gaspard de la...

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