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The story is about a hero's love for three women, all of whom he loses; a hymn to unattainable, unrequited love. The story begins when a paragraph in a newspaper plunges the narrator into his memories as a younger man. The perspective seems to shift back and forth between the past and present, so the reader is never entirely sure if the narrator is recounting past events f
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Mass Market Paperback, 95 pages
Published
September 12th 2001
by Fayard
(first published 1853)
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"¡Amor, ay, por las formas vafas, por los tintes azules y rosados, por los fantasmas metafísicos! Vista de cerca, la mujer real sublevaba nuestra ingenuidad. Tenía que aparecer a nuestros ojos como una diosa o una reina, y desde luego, por nuestra parte, no pretender jamás acercarse a ella."
Me quedé muy sorprendido por esta obra de Nerval que aunque es desordenada, como el mismo autor lo admite, y cuenta algunos eventos comunes (me hizo recordar la "Graziella" de Lamartine), tiene elementos tan ...more
Me quedé muy sorprendido por esta obra de Nerval que aunque es desordenada, como el mismo autor lo admite, y cuenta algunos eventos comunes (me hizo recordar la "Graziella" de Lamartine), tiene elementos tan ...more

"I went to bed but found no rest; and as I lay there between sleeping and waking, memories of my childhood thronged about me. In this state, where the mind still resists the fantastic combinations of dreams, the important happenings of a long period of one’s life often crowd themselves into a few moments."
Gérard de Nerval's Sylvie seems to me a woefully overlook French nouvelle. It was first published in 1853, meaning that it is far out of copyright - and so anyone intrigued by this review, ...more

Esta novela foi adorada por Proust, Eco e Gracq. A razão prende-se com a prosa poética, mas acima de tudo com o mundo-história criado por Nerval que a partir de avanços e recuos cria uma nébula de incerteza, tornando o ambiente irreal, mundo sonhado, inconstante, indefinível, mas atraente e envolvente. Como que somos seduzidos pelo texto a entrar num mundo de ilusão, no qual acabamos a perder-nos.
Eco cita este texto como um daqueles que devemos reler, reler e reler, porque só assim chegaremos a ...more
Eco cita este texto como um daqueles que devemos reler, reler e reler, porque só assim chegaremos a ...more

O narrador- personagem vivendo em uma ilusão que beira à loucura , não consegue se decidir entres essas beldades : Aurélie, Sylvie e Adrienne. Mas será que ele na verdade prefere este estado ilusório ou é apenas um escape para uma realidade intangível? Teremos que ler o livro para saber. O que percebemos , é que a mente do narrador está toda confusa; Aurelie para ele é apenas uma manifestação presente de seu amor que sentira no passado por Adrienne, e Sylvie é apenas uma encarnação de Adrienn
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O romantic love! Or rather, oh love of the romantic period. Think of Rousseau, who said “the spectacle of nature consoles all.” Love is nature. Nature is love.
Our unnamed narrator reflects about the three women he loved in his life. Noble Adrienne who left for a convent but died too early; the beautiful actress Aurélia, who loved all those suitors, or was it the chase itself; and plain and simple Sylvie, a glove maker who lives up to her name - one from the forest.
The old adage is “City and Cou ...more
Our unnamed narrator reflects about the three women he loved in his life. Noble Adrienne who left for a convent but died too early; the beautiful actress Aurélia, who loved all those suitors, or was it the chase itself; and plain and simple Sylvie, a glove maker who lives up to her name - one from the forest.
The old adage is “City and Cou ...more

Hated it. I am NOT a romantic, I guess. Or sorry, a Romantic. Romantique. This class (Rebellion Against Romanticism) was such a labor for me. God bless the professor, but I just couldn't find it in me to get excited about melodramatic, borderline-suicidal male protagonists who loved nature and women and suffering. Sylvie was all about the difference between this innocent naive country girl and this actress, both of whom totally capture the narrator's heart. He really goes off the deep end, and t
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This short novel is for me a little forgotten jewel of the romantic literature,has a exquisite,elegant,cult and with many references to the classic world prose.
It is a simbol in the form of the memories of a man of the fruitless search of the idealistic sublimated romantic love represented by three differet women.
It is a simbol in the form of the memories of a man of the fruitless search of the idealistic sublimated romantic love represented by three differet women.

Sep 28, 2017
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Umberto Eco, «uno de los libros más bellos jamás escritos.» «La lectura de Sylvie me dejó trastornado. Más tarde supe que a Proust le había sucedido lo mismo.» Umberto Eco

Une lecture vite lue, encore plus vite oubliée : c'était médiocre, même la plume est quelconque. C'est la rêverie d'un guss qui hésite entre deux femmes qui veulent même pas de lui, mangeant de la soupe à l'oignon au "parfum patriarcal" (j'avoue qu'elle m'a fait rire celle là) et théorisant sur l'amour sublimé ou réaliste, passant à côté de la vie, la vraie. À la rigueur si vous habitez autour d'Ermenonville et Senlis, les évocations bucoliques des paysages et de la vie campagnarde pourraient vo
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Dice Juan Malpartida: “Traductor, poeta, narrador, cuentista, libretista, Gérard de Nerval fue un escritor raro para su tiempo. Su obra más profunda e inquietante fue escrita en los últimos años de su vida como un testimonio de su particular descenso a los infiernos. Amigo y colaborador de Gautier, de Alejandro Dumas, de Victor Hugo, Nerval fue admirado por ellos, pero la rareza de su propósito literario y la rara calidad de su prosa y de su poesía sólo podían ser comprendidas a partir de Baudel
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Cela résume ce que je pense de ce livre horrible !

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I immediately reread large sections of this story when I finished it just to try to understand how Nerval achieved the effects that have made this story famous. The temporal ambiguity, the merging of themes and characters, the eerie crisscrossing of biography and fantasy...reading this book was like floating through Nerval's memory. And it was a weird, wonderful experience.
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Due testi in uno potrebbe essere descritto così questo breve romanzo di Gerard de Nerval. Da un lato, il racconto di Sylvie e dall' altro la rilettura di Eco che lo ha anche tradotto per Einaudi.
La rilettura di Eco impreziosisce ancora di più Sylvie permettendo al lettore di comprendere significati che possono sfuggire.
Sylvie è come una di queste chimere che "ammaliano e sconvolgono all'alba della vita", inafferrabile che ti trasporta tra sogno e realtà, dove non si sa quando inizia uno e termi ...more
La rilettura di Eco impreziosisce ancora di più Sylvie permettendo al lettore di comprendere significati che possono sfuggire.
Sylvie è come una di queste chimere che "ammaliano e sconvolgono all'alba della vita", inafferrabile che ti trasporta tra sogno e realtà, dove non si sa quando inizia uno e termi ...more

Umberto Eco went on and on about this in Six Walks in the Fictional Woods and elsewhere I'm sure, so I thought I ought to read it. It sounded exceptional, elusive, playing with time and memory, with elements of Romanticism and lost beauty and all the other things that you can name to gain my immediate attention. As ever, I don't know if the problem is in the translation, though I looked at two side-by-side in the library before making my impulsive choice, but part of the problem was that I just
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Che dire ora, che non sia la storia di tanti altri?
[…] Tali sono le chimere che ammaliano e sconvolgono all'alba della vita […] Le illusioni cadono l'una dopo l'altra, come scorze di un frutto, e il frutto è l'esperienza. Il suo sapore è amaro e tuttavia essa ha qualcosa di aspro che tonifica. […]
La storia è più o meno tutta qui, racchiusa in queste poche righe.
'Ecco dov'era la felicità... eppure.'
Già, capita. Mentre tu non scegli, gli altri lo fanno, eccome se lo fanno!, e definiscono la tua s ...more
[…] Tali sono le chimere che ammaliano e sconvolgono all'alba della vita […] Le illusioni cadono l'una dopo l'altra, come scorze di un frutto, e il frutto è l'esperienza. Il suo sapore è amaro e tuttavia essa ha qualcosa di aspro che tonifica. […]
La storia è più o meno tutta qui, racchiusa in queste poche righe.
'Ecco dov'era la felicità... eppure.'
Già, capita. Mentre tu non scegli, gli altri lo fanno, eccome se lo fanno!, e definiscono la tua s ...more

Poor Gerard. Epigone of Goethe? Perhaps. Heir to Rousseau. This Gallic writer ( Nerval, not me) seems to mention Camille Paglia's least favorite philosopher. But I digress.
The novel is ostensibly a tale of unrequited love. For a provincial girl, an actress, and a nun. The nameless narrator is in love with all three. But is he? I think he's in love with the idea of love. What a lovely idea. The novella progresses in a nonlinear format from a theatre in Paris to the Alps. What will capture the rea ...more
The novel is ostensibly a tale of unrequited love. For a provincial girl, an actress, and a nun. The nameless narrator is in love with all three. But is he? I think he's in love with the idea of love. What a lovely idea. The novella progresses in a nonlinear format from a theatre in Paris to the Alps. What will capture the rea ...more

This was a very good example of a French nouvelle... in equal parts romantic and tragic. My only criticism is that it was sometimes hard to tell when Nerval was writing a memory and when he was actually writing the events taking place in the timeline of the story. It wasn't always immediately clear to me when he would drift off into a story taken from one of the narrator's memories.
Apart from that, though, it was a lovely and fairly quick read. ...more
Apart from that, though, it was a lovely and fairly quick read. ...more

عشق،ای دریغا از آن! از پیکرههایی مبهم و مه آلوده، رنگهایی گلفام و کبود،شبحهایی فراسویی و آنسری! اگر از نزدیک مینگریستیم، زن راستین و واقعی ما را، به سبب ساده دلیمان، بر میشوراند؛ میبایست که زن، چونان شهربانو یا ایزدبانو پدیدار میشد، تا دل از ما برباید؛ و به ویژه میبایست به او نزدیک نمی شدیم.
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Jan 01, 2016
Laura
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Free download available at Project Gutenberg.
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Zagreb, 2007.
S francuskog prevela: Višnja Machiedo
Djelo je objelodanjeno u sklopu biblioteke "Vrhovi svjetske književnosti". Unutar samog izdanja objavljena su još dva naslova, koja? Vidjet ćete ako pročitate moja sljedeća dva kratkosvrta. Prevoditeljica Višnja Machiedo je ujedno napisala i pogovor.
Izvorno izdanje je tiskano 1853. te u tom smislu valja istaći da je, od svih zapadnoeuropskih nacionalnih romantičarskih poetika, francuski romantizam ponajviše kasnio. Romantizam je započeo svoj ...more
Zagreb, 2007.
S francuskog prevela: Višnja Machiedo
Djelo je objelodanjeno u sklopu biblioteke "Vrhovi svjetske književnosti". Unutar samog izdanja objavljena su još dva naslova, koja? Vidjet ćete ako pročitate moja sljedeća dva kratkosvrta. Prevoditeljica Višnja Machiedo je ujedno napisala i pogovor.
Izvorno izdanje je tiskano 1853. te u tom smislu valja istaći da je, od svih zapadnoeuropskih nacionalnih romantičarskih poetika, francuski romantizam ponajviše kasnio. Romantizam je započeo svoj ...more

"La relación de un lector con su libro debe ser como la amistad, como el romance: un descubrimiento progresivo, una seducción, nunca un encuentro abrupto".
–Fragmento: "Nota del traductor".
"Amor, ¡ay, por las formas vagas, los tonos rosas y azules, los fantasmas metafísicos!".
"«He comido del tambor y bebido del címbalo», como dice la frase despojada de sentido aparente de los iniciados de Eleusis. Significa sin duda que en la necesidad hay que cruzar los límites del contrasentido y el absurdo: la ...more
–Fragmento: "Nota del traductor".
"Amor, ¡ay, por las formas vagas, los tonos rosas y azules, los fantasmas metafísicos!".
"«He comido del tambor y bebido del címbalo», como dice la frase despojada de sentido aparente de los iniciados de Eleusis. Significa sin duda que en la necesidad hay que cruzar los límites del contrasentido y el absurdo: la ...more

Flowery, uninteresting, without substance -- and that's very disappointing, because I had high hopes for Nerval. But nearly everything in life is disappointing to varying degrees.
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Es una bonita historia, y en lo personal me encanto en modo en el cual estaba narrada la historia, a pesar que un par de veces me perdí, ya que fue más interesante.
En cuanto a los personajes tengo que decir que más de una vez Sylvie me desespero, y nuestro protagonista misterioso me llegó al corazon, aún así no le perdono lo que llego a hacer...
Realmente vale la pena darle la oportunidad para sorprendernos, lo que sí recomiendo es no llegar con expectativas pero sí informados, a éste ni a ningu ...more
En cuanto a los personajes tengo que decir que más de una vez Sylvie me desespero, y nuestro protagonista misterioso me llegó al corazon, aún así no le perdono lo que llego a hacer...
Realmente vale la pena darle la oportunidad para sorprendernos, lo que sí recomiendo es no llegar con expectativas pero sí informados, a éste ni a ningu ...more

Jul 27, 2014
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People from different worlds want to reconnect: the protagonist falls in love with a dream, is loved by an idea and he will be abandoned by both. The best non-suicide note ever written.
Plot: He loves Adrienne, Sylvie loves him, but soon no one will love him.
Plot: He loves Adrienne, Sylvie loves him, but soon no one will love him.
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