question: The French writer, poet, essayist and translator Gérard de Nerval influenced which cultural movement where Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with precsion?
answer: Surrealism
context: Title: Almire Gandonnière
  Passage: Almire Gandonnière (Loué, Sarthe, France, 3 August 1814 – ) was a French writer, remembered today only as the collaborator with Hector Berlioz of the libretto for "La Damnation de Faust" (1846), which was based on the translation of Goethe's masterpiece by Gérard de Nerval.  Gandonnière, under various pseudonyms, published satires, verses and occasional critical essays in the Paris press.
  Title: Sylvie (novel)
  Passage: Sylvie (1853) is a novella by French Romanticist Gérard de Nerval.  It was first published in the periodical "La Revue des Deux Mondes" in 1853, and as a book in "Les Filles du feu" in 1854, just a few months before Nerval killed himself in January 1855.  "Sylvie" is often considered to be Nerval's prose masterpiece, and has been a favorite of Marcel Proust, André Breton, Joseph Cornell and Umberto Eco.  Harold Bloom included it in "The Western Canon" (1994).
  Title: La Pandora
  Passage: La Pandora is a short novella by the French poet and writer Gerard de Nerval.  In the style of Sylvie, it recounts Nerval's stay in Vienna in 1839-1840 and his infatuation with a theatre actress there.  It was a follow-up to the text of "Les Amours de Vienne", previously published in Revue de Paris in 1841 and incorporated in Nerval's book "Voyage en Orient" in 1852.  "Pandora" was originally titled "Suite des Amours de Vienne - La Pandora".
  Title: Gérard de Nerval
  Passage: Gérard de Nerval (] ; 22 May 1808 – 26 January 1855) was the "nom-de-plume" of the French writer, poet, essayist and translator Gérard Labrunie.  A major figure of French romanticism, he is best known for his poems and novellas, especially the collection "Les Filles du feu" ("The Daughters of Fire"), which includes the novella "Sylvie" and the poem "El Desdichado".  He played a major role in introducing French readers to the works of German Romantic authors, including Klopstock, Schiller, Bürger, and Goethe.  His later work delved into the relationship between poetry and madness, reality and fiction, and dreams and life.  He was a major influence on Marcel Proust, André Breton and Surrealism.
  Title: Lorely, souvenirs d'Allemagne
  Passage: Lorely is a collection of travel essays and a drama by Gérard de Nerval.  The essays describe de Nerval's journeys along the Rhine and in the Netherlands and Belgium.  It takes its title from the Lorelei, a rock on the eastern bank of the river Rhine.
  Title: Surrealism
  Passage: Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.  Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects, and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself.  Its aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality".
  Title: Les Filles du feu
  Passage: Les Filles du feu (English: "The Daughters of Fire" ) is a collection of short prose works, poetry and a play published by the French poet Gérard de Nerval in January 1854, a year before his death.  During 1853, Nerval had suffered three nervous breakdowns and spent five months in an asylum.  He saw "Les Filles du feu" as an opportunity to show the public, his friends and his father that he was sane, though except for the introduction all of the pieces in "Les Filles du feu" had been published previously: "Angélique" in "Les Faux Saulniers" (1850), "Sylvie" in "La Revue des Deux Mondes" (1853), and "Émilie", "Jemmy", "Isis" and "Octavie" in diverse reviews.
  Title: Voyage to the Orient
  Passage: Voyage to the Orient (French: "Voyage en Orient" ) is one of the works of French writer and poet Gérard de Nerval, published during 1851, resulting from his voyage of 1842 to Cairo and Beirut.  In addition to a travel account it retells Oriental tales, like Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, in terms of the artist and the act of creation.
  Title: Cénacle
  Passage: Cénacle is the name given to a Parisian literary group of varying constituency that began about 1826 to gather around Charles Nodier.  The group sought to revive in French literature the old monarchical spirit, the spirit of medieval mystery and spiritual submission.  The chief members were Vigny and the brothers Deschamps.  They were soon joined by Lamartine, Hugo, and Sainte-Beuve, who describes the group as "royalists by birth, Christians by convention and a vague sentimentality."  Their organ was "La Muse Française".  Musset, Mérimée, and the elder Dumas were involved within the Cénacle, too.  Time and the revolution of 1830 wrought changes in the attitudes of the members of Cénacle.  Théophile Gautier and Gérard de Nerval were attracted to the group at the time of the revolution, but the reasons for the existence of the Cénacle dissolved.  The group lost its reason for existence with the triumph of Hugo's "Hernani" (1830).
  Title: Charles Nodier
  Passage: Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier (April 29, 1780 – January 27, 1844) was an influential French author and librarian who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the "conte fantastique", gothic literature, and vampire tales.  His dream related writings influenced the later works of Gérard de Nerval.
citations: Surrealism Gérard de Nerval