From Gaspard de la Nuit
French poet Aloisius Bertrand (1807-1841) is a pioneer in the genre of prose poems. His most famous work, a collection of poetic prose, Gaspard de la Nuit, was published posthumously in 1842. It was only after his death that Betrand’s literary talent was recognized. Among others, his Gaspard influenced Baudelaire’s creation of Le Spleen de Paris in 1869. In 1908, Maurice Ravel composed a piano triptych based on Betrand’s collection. But it was finally in 1992 that the Nationa
