Gaspard de la nuit: Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot

Aloysius Bertrand

1807–1841

A French Romantic writer remembered as a pioneer of prose poetry, he left behind work that helped open a new path in nineteenth-century literature. His best-known book, Gaspard de la Nuit, was published after his death and later became especially famous for its eerie, dreamlike imagination.