Charles Nodier - a figure in the history of French literature is very peculiar His literary work is inseparable from the history of French romanticism - at the same time, among French romantics, he always stood apart. He was a contemporary of two literary "generations" of Romanticism - and did not actually belong to either of them. He was a kind of "discoverer" in Romanticism - and always found himself in opposition to the romantic literature of his time. “In a few hours I performed miracles of ingenuity and heroism that are not inferior to the feats of Hercules: first, I learned by heart a kabalistic spell, without dropping a single word, a single letter, or a single sefirot ;. Fourth, I sold myself to the devil, and this is probably the only explanation that I have been able to perform so many miracles.