by Marcel Schwob · Folio · tapa dura · ISBN 9788441319806
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«Viaje a Samoa» is the collection of travel letters by Marcel Schwob to Margarita Moreno, published by Folio in 2004 in hardback (255 pages, in Spanish).
In 1901, the French writer Marcel Schwob sets sail from Marseille for Samoa, with stopovers in Ceylon and Sydney, and writes to Margarita Moreno letters that blend travel chronicle and intimate diary. He recounts the hardships of the voyage, the people he meets, and the landscapes he discovers across the Southern Ocean. The volume opens with «La tumba de las aventuras», by Enrique Vila-Matas.
Part of the Biblioteca del Viajero ABC; prologue by Eduardo Jordá, preface by Pierre Champion, and translation by Jaume Pomar. Original title: «Le voyage à Samoa».
Intended for readers of travel literature, writers' diaries, and admirers of Marcel Schwob.
Mayer André Marcel Schwob, known as Marcel Schwob, was a French symbolist writer best known for his short stories and his literary influence on authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Alfonso Reyes, Roberto Bolaño and Patricio Pron. He has been called a "precursor of Surrealism". In addition to over a hundred short stories, he wrote journalistic articles, essays, biographies, literary reviews and analysis, translations and plays. He was extremely well known and respected during his life and notably befriended a great number of intellectuals and artists of the time.
