by Marcel Schwob · Siruela · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478442874
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Corazón doble is a collection of 34 stories by the French writer Marcel Schwob, originally published in 1891. These fantastic tales explore the terrors that human beings have experienced throughout the centuries, from crimes and superstitions to magic and the search for strange sensations. Schwob seeks to take the reader from terror to piety, showing how man becomes worthy of compassion after experiencing horror.
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.
