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Article: Theophile Gautier: Correspondance generale 1872 et complements. (book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
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- March 22, 2002
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XII. Ed. avec la collaboration d'Andrew Gann. Geneve-Paris: Librairie Droz, 2000. Pp. 411. ISBN 2-600-00374-6 Constance Gosselin Schick, College of the Holy Cross
On August 30, 1872, Theophile Gautier writes one last time to Carlotta Grisi of "ces desirs de m'envoler a Geneve [...] comme un instinct voyageur. Cet instinct a une telle force qu'il produit une nostalgie dont on peut mourir" (70). Within two months, he will die, perhaps not of the mortal nostalgia for those dream sites that was the affliction / blessing of so many of his literary personae, but with nevertheless that ironic and always movingly pathetic admixture of unexpectedness--for one who still ...