Mimes by Marcel Schwob released

Cardboard Wall Empire’s Resuscitations series of releases featuring lesser known or neglected works presents Marcel Schwob’s Mimes.

"These twenty-and-one prose-songs, marking a stage of his own literary development, are reiterations of a dead and vanished time, reincarnations of the Greek soul,—a faithful recapturing of that old Greek life, seemingly so unconscious of a future here or elsewhere."
- A. Lenalie

Included in this edition:

Mimes by Marcel Schwob
1905 edition translated by A. Lenalie

Essay "The New Erasmus” by Vance Thompson

Marcel Schwob's essay on Robert Louis Stevenson, "R. L. S."

Biography of Ellen Dresser, alias "Aimee Lenalie."

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Published on January 07, 2020 13:04 • Tags: collection, marcel-schwob, mimes, symbolist
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message 1: by Tom (last edited Jan 13, 2020 08:12AM) (new)
Jan 13, 2020 08:11AM

Tom Glad to learn of this series, especially this volume.

Fleur Jaeggy writes on Schwob in These Possible Lives, though I haven't had chance to read it yet.

Any new piece on RLS always gets my attention.

Thanks!


message 2: by Rebecca (new)
Jan 13, 2020 09:58AM

Rebecca Gransden Tom wrote: "Glad to learn of this series, especially this volume.

Fleur Jaeggy writes on Schwob in These Possible Lives, though I haven't had chance to read it yet.

Any new piece on RLS alway..."

Appreciate your interest Tom. I very much enjoyed putting it together. Very intriguing connection between Schwob and Stevenson, that I was unaware of before researching the translator. Thank you so much for bringing the Jaeggy to my attention - looks delightful!


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