Sylvain

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani discusses Sylvain while reading Nerval's Angélique in the 2017-2018 sessions, and comes back to him in the 2020 interview. He first reads him through his first name: Sylvain is "the man of the woods," a friend whose name smells of the forest12. He sees in him a symbolic causality: the character appears with the forest and vanishes as soon as one leaves it3. In 2020 he presents him as an invented companion who emerges in the countryside and fades away in the city4. In his view, this companion also allows Nerval to express his own wish to go to Ermenonville1. He points out several features of the text: Sylvain is a taciturn man who sings rounds and, when it rains, the song of the red monks5. As a child, he abandoned the narrator during a drowning6. He eventually returns to his home country, at Dammartin, on the edge of the forests7.

1. 1#4.5 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Feb 2018 · 25:35
2. 2#4.7 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Apr 2018 · 3:30
3. 3#4.3 Angélique (de Nerval)11 Dec 2017 · 1:26:17
4. 4L'interview de Dominique Pagani : Introduction aux futurs ateliers23 Mar 2020 · 36:25
5. 5#4.7 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Apr 2018 · 34:16
6. 6#4.5 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Feb 2018 · 50:38
7. 7#4.7 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Apr 2018 · 1:12:34

Summary produced automatically from 7 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.