Description
Title: The King in the Golden Mask
Author: Marcel Schwob
ISBN: 9781939663238
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: 2017
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 186
Condition Note: New from the publisher
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Twenty one of Marcel Schwob’s cruelest tales, translated to English for the first time
First published in French in 1892 and never before translated fully into English, The King in the Golden Mask gathers 21 of Marcel Schwob’s cruelest and most erudite tales. Melding the fantastic with historical fiction, these stories describe moments of unexplained violence both historical and imaginary, often blending the two through Schwob’s collaging of primary source documents into fiction. Brimming with murder, suicide, royal leprosy and medieval witchcraft, Schwob’s stories portray clergymen furtively attending medieval sabbaths, Protestant galley slaves laboring under the persecution of Louis XIV and dice-tumbling sons of Florentine noblemen wandering Europe at the height of the 1374 plague. These writings are of such hallucinatory detail and linguistic specificity that the reader is left wondering whether they aren’t newly unearthed historical documents. To read Schwob is to encounter human history in its most scintillating form as it comes into contact with this unparalleled imagination.
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