Sylvie: Souvenirs Du Valois

By Gérard de Nerval

Book Overview

Sylvie (1853) is a novella by French Romanticist Grard de Nerval. It was first published in the periodical La Revue des Deux Mondes in 1853, and as a book in Les Filles du feu in 1854, just a few months before Nerval killed himself in January 1855. Sylvie is often considered Nerval's prose masterpiece, and has been a favorite of Marcel Proust, Andr Breton, Joseph Cornell and Umberto Eco. Harold Bloom included it in The Western Canon (1994).The story is about a hero's love for three women, all of whom he loses; a hymn to unattainable, unrequited love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481926217
• ISBN13: 9781481926218
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"