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  1. Marcel Schwob. Mayer André Marcel Schwob, known as Marcel Schwob (23 August 1867 – 26 February 1905), was a French symbolist writer best known for his short stories and his literary influence on authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, [1] Alfonso Reyes, Roberto Bolaño [2] and Patricio Pron. He has been called a "precursor of Surrealism". [3]

  2. Learn about Marcel Schwob, a French Symbolist writer and author of Cœur double, Le livre de Monelle, and Vies imaginaires. Read his poem Mime X from 1901.

  3. Marcel Schwob has 173 books on Goodreads with 21505 ratings. Marcel Schwob’s most popular book is The Book of Monelle.

  4. Mayer-André-Marcel Schwob was born August 23, 1867 in Chaville, France. His father, George Schwob, worked for the foreign affairs ministry in Egypt for 10 years and later returned to France. Schwob’s mother, née Mathilde Cahun, was a descendant of the Jewish Cayms, known for fighting in the crusades with St. Louis.

  5. Sep 15, 2015 · Marcel Schwob. Marcel Schwob (1867-1905) was one of the key symbolist writers, standing in French literature alongside such names as Stephane Mallarme, Octave Mirbeau, Andre Gide, Leon Bloy, Jules Renard, Remy de Gourmont, and Alfred Jarry. His best-known works are Double Heart (1891), The King In The Gold Mask (1892), and Imaginary Lives (1896).

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  6. Apr 24, 2013 · By Stephen Sparks. Historian and biographer Pierre Champion once characterized French writer Marcel Schwob (1867-1905) as “a man of the future.”. It seems an odd assessment of a man who insistently looked to the past. Born into a family of rabbis and doctors, Schwob’s life was strongly marked by an obsessive fascination with bygone ...

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  8. 1,340 ratings163 reviews. 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 Stéphane Mallarmé, Alfred Jarry and André Gide. A carefully woven assemblage of legends, aphorisms, fairy tales and nihilistic philosophy ...

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