About the book: 1960 / Charles Nodier is a very peculiar figure in the history of French literature. His literary work is inseparable from the history of French romanticism - at the same time, among the French romantics he always stood apart. He was a contemporary of two literary “generations” of romanticism - and in fact did not belong to either of them. He was a kind of “pioneer” in romanticism - and always found himself, as it were, in opposition to the romantic literature of his time. “...Would you mind telling us some ghost stories??»