by Marcel Schwob · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788430058730
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«El libro de Monelle» is a collection of symbolist short stories by Marcel Schwob, published by Nostromo in paperback (120 pages, in Spanish).
Inspired by the figure of Monelle, the book brings together tales that explore the fragility of life and ephemeral beauty from a symbolist and melancholic perspective. Schwob portrays humble and disinherited characters with a lyrical prose of simple appearance, capable of elevating their stories to an almost biblical tone.
1973 edition in the Nostromo collection (no. 4), with translation by T. Broustein and cover by Diego Lara. Original work: «Le Livre de Monelle» (1894).
For readers of nineteenth-century French literature and the symbolist short story.
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.
