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Marcel Schwob; Translated by Alex Andriesse
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When Marcel Schwob published "The Book of Monelle" in French in
1894, it immediately became the unofficial bible of the French
Symbolist movement, admired by such contemporaries as Stephane
Mallarme, Alfred Jarry and Andre Gide. A carefully woven assemblage
of legends, aphorisms, fairy tales and nihilistic philosophy, it
remains a deeply enigmatic and haunting work more than a century
later, a gathering of literary and personal ruins written in a
style that evokes both the Brothers Grimm and Friedrich Nietzsche.
"The Book of Monelle" was the result of Schwob's intense emotional
suffering over the loss of his love, a "girl of the streets" named
Louise, whom he had befriended in 1891 and who succumbed to
tuberculosis two years later. Transforming her into the innocent
prophet of destruction, Monelle, Schwob tells the stories of her
various sisters: girls succumbing to disillusionment, caught
between the misleading world of childlike fantasy and the bitter
world of reality. This new translation reintroduces a true
fin-de-siecle masterpiece into English.
A secret influence on generations of writers, from Guillaume
Apollinaire and Jorge Luis Borges to Roberto Bolano, Marcel Schwob
(1867-1905) was as versed in the street slang of medieval thieves
as he was in the poetry of Walt Whitman (whom he translated into
French). Paul Valery and Alfred Jarry both dedicated their first
books to him, and he was the uncle of Surrealist photographer
Claude Cahun.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ Der Kinderkreuzzung; Volume 16 Of Bucherei "Der Jungste Tag"
Marcel Schwob, Arthur Seiffhar K. Wolff, 1914
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
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++++ "R. L. S." An Essay Marcel Schwob, Edmund Gosse A. Lenalie T.
B. Mosher, 1920 Literary Criticism; European; English, Irish,
Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish,
Scottish, Welsh
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