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
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
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EBook-No. 40492
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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