Sylvie: souvenirs du Valois by Gérard de Nerval
"Sylvie: souvenirs du Valois" by Gérard de Nerval is a novella published in 1853. Set between memory and present, it follows a narrator haunted by his love for three unattainable women: Sylvie, a peasant girl from his youth; Aurélie, a seductive Parisian actress; and Adrienne, a noble beauty who enters a convent. Moving between past and present, the story explores unrequited love and lost ideals through lyrical prose that captivated writers from
Proust to Breton, earning its place as a masterpiece of French Romanticism. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Nerval, Gérard de, 1808-1855 |
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| Commentator | Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 |
| Translator | Page, Lucie (Lucie Elizabeth) |
| Title | Sylvie: souvenirs du Valois |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvie_(novel) |
| Credits | Produced by Marc D'Hooghe (From images generously made available by the Hathi Trust) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 75.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | French fiction -- Translations into English |
| Subject | Unrequited love -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 40492 |
| Release Date | Aug 13, 2012 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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