The Book of Monelle [electronic resource]
Marcel Schwob2020
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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 Stéphane Mallarmé, Alfred Jarry and André
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 n...
Main title:
The Book of Monelle [electronic resource] / Marcel Schwob
Author:
Marcel Schwob, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Wakefield Press, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (136 pages,)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781939663573
Language:
English
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BRN:
433882
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