Schwob, Marcel
Schwob, Marcel (1867–1905),French essayist, critic, and novelist, who was strongly influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and wrote haunting tales that incorporated fairy‐tale motifs. Schwob wrote his unusual tales for various Parisian newspapers and journals and collected them in three important books, Cœur double (Double Heart, 1891), Le Roi au masque d'or (The King with the Golden Mask, 1893), and Les Vies imaginaires (Imaginary Lives, 1896). Schwob's tales were brief reveries with ironic twists, such as the king who wears a golden mask unaware that he has leprosy. By discarding the mask, he purifies himself; and with his own blood he heals the leprosy, but thereby causes his death. In most of Schwob's tales there is a paradoxical connection between horror and truth.
Jack Zipes
Bibliography
Champion, Pierre, Marcel Schwob et son temps (1927).
Trembley, George, Marcel...
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