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Marcel Schwob


Born
in Chaville, France
August 23, 1867

Died
February 12, 1905

Genre
Fiction

Influences
Robert Louis Stevenson, Gustave Flaubert, Edgar Allan Poe, François Vi ...more


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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Average rating: 3.97 · 6,588 ratings · 847 reviews · 191 distinct works • Similar authors
The Book of Monelle
4.09 avg rating — 1,484 ratings — published 1894
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Imaginary Lives
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3.98 avg rating — 1,245 ratings — published 1896 — 130 editions
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The Children's Crusade
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3.89 avg rating — 697 ratings — published 1896 — 119 editions
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The King in the Golden Mask
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3.97 avg rating — 333 ratings — published 1892 — 52 editions
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The King in the Golden Mask...
4.14 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 1982 — 7 editions
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Dentro la maschera
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Vidas imaginarias / La cruz...
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4.20 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 1896 — 9 editions
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Cœur double
3.86 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1891 — 31 editions
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Mimes
4.08 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1893 — 48 editions
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“Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange to you.”
― Marcel Schwob, The Book of Monelle
tags: life-and-death, living-in-the-moment
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“As masks are the sign that there are faces, words are the sign that there are things. And these things are the sign of the incomprehensible.”
― Marcel Schwob, The King in the Golden Mask and Other Stories
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“May your course not run from one end to the other; for such a course does not exist; but may every step you take mark a redressed projection.
With your left foot you shall wipe out the footprint of your right foot.”
― Marcel Schwob, El libro de Monelle
tags: symbolist
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