by Gérard de Nerval · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423316625
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«Silvie» is the short novel by Gérard de Nerval, introduced and translated by Ana María Moix, published by Destino in 1988 in paperback (112 pages, in Spanish).
A young man suffering from the "mal du siècle" flees the big city and returns to a village near Paris to recover his first love. Through this quest, Nerval conveys the failure of the endeavor and the awareness of the passage of time, in a story about memory, the idealization of the past, and the definitive loss of childhood.
The work originally appeared in 1853 and belongs to the Cuadernos de Bitácora collection from Ediciones Destino. This edition includes an introduction by Ana María Moix.
For readers of nineteenth-century French literature and short narratives that explore nostalgia and memory.
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.
