Marcel Schwob (1867 1905) was one of the key symbolist writers, standing in French literature alongside such names as Stéphane Mallarmé, Octave Mirbeau, André Gide, Léon Bloy, Jules Renard, Rémy de Gourmont, and Alfred Jarry. His best-known works are Double Heart (1891), The King In The Gold Mask (1892), and Imaginary Lives (1896). Imaginary Lives contains twenty-two mythopoeic literary portraits of figures from ancient history, art history, and the history of crime and punishment. From demi-gods, sorcerers, incendiaries, wantons and philosophers of the ancient world, to the "poet of hate" Cecco Angiolieri and the painter Paolo Uccello, through to the pirates William Kidd and Major Stede-Bonnet, and finally Burke and Hare, the serial killers; Schwob presents a vivid array of characters who display all that is macabre, deviant and magnificently terrifying in human beings and in life. In Imaginary Lives, Schwob has created a "secret" masterpiece that joins other biographical glossaries such as Jorge Luis Borges' A Universal History Of Infamy and Alfonso Reyes' Real And Imagined Portraits in the pantheon of classic speculative fiction, of which Schwob's book is the dark progenitor. Livid with decadent imagery, Imaginary Lives resonates loudly today with its themes of temporality, myth, violence and sexuality, and stands as a major work of the fin-de-siècle. Solar Nocturnal presents classic literature and art by key forerunners of modernism.
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雖然是前輩,但說到法國作傢Marcel Schwob基本繞不開博爾赫斯的名字;這本Imaginary Lives據說啓發瞭博爾赫斯創作《惡棍列傳》。22篇人物小傳充滿瞭超現實主義色彩,從神話人物到古希臘詩人到不羈遊俠再到連環殺手,精心而細緻地錶現人性矛盾和真實世界的扭麯。當然,在作者半虛構的世界裏也不乏黑色幽默,書裏有些cross-reference不禁讓人會心一笑。
評分雖然是前輩,但說到法國作傢Marcel Schwob基本繞不開博爾赫斯的名字;這本Imaginary Lives據說啓發瞭博爾赫斯創作《惡棍列傳》。22篇人物小傳充滿瞭超現實主義色彩,從神話人物到古希臘詩人到不羈遊俠再到連環殺手,精心而細緻地錶現人性矛盾和真實世界的扭麯。當然,在作者半虛構的世界裏也不乏黑色幽默,書裏有些cross-reference不禁讓人會心一笑。
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評分法國人這本書對博爾赫斯《惡棍列傳》和波拉尼奧《美洲納粹文學》有直接的影響,因為課題需要,時常隨身帶著。
評分法國人這本書對博爾赫斯《惡棍列傳》和波拉尼奧《美洲納粹文學》有直接的影響,因為課題需要,時常隨身帶著。
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