by Gérard de Nerval · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253146209
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«Sylvie» is the short novel by Gérard de Nerval, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (87 pages, in French).
The narrator recalls two youthful loves, Sylvie and Aurélie, in a French rural landscape that moves between memory and reverie. Nostalgia becomes an inner inquiry: idealized love and the search for identity intertwine in poetic prose with a dreamlike atmosphere.
Published in 1853, the work was later integrated into the collection Les Filles du feu. The 1999 edition offers the complete text in French, with an introduction and notes by Marie-France Azéma.
For readers of French classics who appreciate short nineteenth-century narratives with a marked lyrical tone.
Gérard de Nerval was the pen name of Gérard Labrunie, a French travel writer, essayist, poet, and translator. He was a major figure during the era of French romanticism, and best known for his novellas and poems, especially the collection Les Filles du feu, which included the novella Sylvie and the poem "El Desdichado". Through his translations, Nerval played a major role in introducing French readers to the works of German Romantic authors, including Klopstock, Schiller, Bürger and Goethe. His later work merged poetry and journalism in a fictional context and influenced Marcel Proust. His last novella, Aurélia ou le rêve et la vie, influenced André Breton and Surrealism.
