Marcel Schwob
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Marcel Schwob
Schwob, Marcel (1867–1905), French essayist, critic, and novelist, who was strongly influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and wrote haunting tales that incorporated fairy‐tale motifs. Schwob wrote his unusual tales for various Parisian newspapers and journals and collected them in three important books, Cœur double (Double Heart, 1891), Le Roi au masque d'or (The King with the Golden Mask, 1893), and Les Vies imaginaires (Imaginary Lives, 1896). Schwob's tales were brief reveries with ironic twists, such as the king who wears a golden mask unaware that he has leprosy. By discarding the mask, he purifies himself; and with his own blood he heals the leprosy, but thereby causes his death. In most of Schwob's tales there is a paradoxical connection between horror and truth.
Bibliography
- Champion, Pierre, Marcel Schwob et son temps (1927).
- Trembley, George, Marcel Schwob, faussaire de la nature (1969).
— Jack Zipes
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Marcel Schwob
Schwob, Marcel (1867-1905). French writer. Dismissed for much of this century as a period piece of the Decadent and Symbolist movements, as a polymath who had failed to give effective literary form to themes, images, and myths drawn from an exceptional range of intellectual interests (which included Greek, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon as well as medieval French literature, mystical and idealist philosophy, philology, and slang), Schwob and his work are currently the subject of renewed interest. In particular, Le Roi au masque d'or (1892) and Vies imaginaires (1896) are increasingly seen as engaging with themes (time, myth, sexuality) central to the modern sensibility.
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