"For me Gérard de Nerval, who killed himself in Paris at the age of 46, is the 19th century’s French literary equivalent of Vincent van Gogh and, on his good days, shared the brightness of the latter’s vision. I once had a go at translating what most people would think of as his prose masterpiece,…Read more Gérard de Nerval & Michael Wooff: A tale of the Valois, La Reine des poissons/ The Queen of the fish