The King in the Golden Mask [electronic resource]
Marcel Schwob2020
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Kit Schluter's translation from the French is superb, and he provides a
thoughtful afterword. First published in French in 1892 and never before
translated fully into English, The King in the Golden Mask gathers 21 of Marcel
Schwob's cruelest and most erudite tales. Melding the fantastic with historical
fiction, these stories describe moments of unexplained violence both historical
and imaginary, often blending the two through Schwob's collaging of primary
source documents into fiction. Brimming with murder, suicide, royal leprosy and
medieval witchcraft, Schwob's stories portray clergymen furtively attending
medieval sabbaths, Protestant galley slaves laboring under the persecution of
Louis XIV and dice-tumbling sons of Florentine noblemen wandering Europe at the
height of the 1374 plague. These writings are of such hallucinatory detail and
linguistic specificity that the reader is left wondering whether they aren't
newly unearthed historical documents. To read Schwob is t...
Main title:
The King in the Golden Mask [electronic resource] / Marcel Schwob
Author:
Marcel Schwob, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Wakefield Press, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (176 pages,)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781939663627
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
428522
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |