If Les Chimères were ultimately published in the same volume as Les Filles du feu, wasn’t this because, in extremis, their secret mode of organization was included in them? It cannot be a simple coincidence that there are eight texts on either side—a trace of this concern for duplication and a taste for symmetry that pervades Gérard de Nerval’s poetics. And in Sylvie, with its fourteen chapters, might one say that there is a subtle reminder of the sonnet, audible even in Aurélia?
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques