Solimano e la Regina del Mattino

Nerval is a petit romantique who, having left behind the nights at the theatre and the tender lights of youthful dissipation, discovers the other night – the real one – with its furnishing of visions. Hidden within the folds of Voyage to the Orient, like a wondrous square in a maze-like city, Solomon and the Queen of the Morning  is his first and most secret masterpiece. New and ancient motifs: the story is narrated by a professional storyteller in a café in Istanbul. Everything is enveloped in an ancient twilight among heads weighed down by turbans, and the Sacred Insurrection spoken of by Blake acquires the truth and the evidence of fairy tales, of the most remote and everlasting dreams of man.