Imaginary Lives [electronic resource]
Marcel Schwob2020
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"The art of the biographer consists specifically in choice. He is not meant to
worry about speaking truth; he must create human characteristics amidst the
chaos."-Marcel Schwob
Imaginary Lives remains, over 120 years since its original publication in
French, one of the secret keys to modern literature: under-recognized, yet a
decisive influence on such writers as Apollinaire, Borges, Jarry and Artaud, and
more contemporary authors such as Roberto Bolaño and Jean Echenoz. Drawing from
historical influences such as Plutarch and Diogenes Laërtius, and authors more
contemporary to him such as Thomas De Quincey and Walter Pater, Schwob
established the genre of fictional biography with this collection: a form of
narrative that championed the specificity of the individual over the generality
of history, and the memorable detail of a vice over the forgettable banality of
a virtue.
These 22 portraits present figures drawn from the margins of history, from
Empedocles the "Suppo...
Main title:
Imaginary Lives [electronic resource] / Marcel Schwob
Author:
Marcel Schwob, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Wakefield Press, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (192 pages)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781939663634
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
433900
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |