Gérard de Nerval: poesia e memória

Abstract

This essay tries to approach the prose and the poetry of Gérard de Nerval from a common perspective. Following Marcel Proust’s observations on Sylvie, this article points out a number of features (or echoes) that link this novella to the sonnet “El desdichado”, with emphasis on memory, the figuration of the ideal (particularly of the ideal feminine figure), and disenchantment.