The highlights here are Aurelia and the poetry from Les Chimeres onwards. They are wacked out, and the ending of Aurelia is incredible.
Sylvie is subtly disquieting, probably completely unintentionally. ( )

I knew this would break my heart, and I dove in anyway. ( )

The myth of Nerval: eccentric, careless, tortured. Reading the writing of this eccentric, you walk away dazed by the multi-dimensional, jeweled imagination he carried within him. The themes of Nerval’s stories are typical: desired love, lost love, phantasmagoric worlds and exotic places. However, you sense one who has wandered so far away that there can be no returning. Nerval pursues his dreamt muse who forever eludes her capture into words. ( )