About “Gaspard de la nuit”
Gaspard de la Nuit — Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot is a collection of prose poems by Aloysius Bertrand, an Italian-born French poet. It is regarded as one of the earliest examples of modern prose poetry. The work was published in 1842, one year after Bertrand's death from tuberculosis. It was released as a manuscript dated 1836, edited and published by his friend David d'Angers. The text contains a short address to Victor Hugo and another to Charles Nodier. Additionally, the original 1842 edition included a memoir of Bertrand written by Sainte-Beuve. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)