by Marcel Schwob · tapa dura · ISBN 9788485471614
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"Imaginary Lives", published in 1896, is a work that merges literature and history, evoking historical and fictional characters with a suggestive light. Marcel Schwob, although considered a "secret writer", has influenced authors such as Jorge Luis Borges. This book is a fantastic compendium of magical evocations of historical figures, some real like Uccello, Pocahontas and Captain Kid, others famous like Erostratus and Petronius, and some possibly invented. The work establishes a modern space where literature intertwines with history, offering a unique and evocative perspective.
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.
