by Marcel Schwob · Hiperión · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475174310
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El libro de Monelle is a poetic work by Marcel Schwob, first published in 1894. The book arose from a real story: a love of the young writer for a very young prostitute, who died of tuberculosis three years into their relationship. Schwob transcended his pain by poetizing his experience, and the result was this work, which more than a century later maintains intact the freshness and beauty of the emotion that originated it and the art with which it was written. This edition of Hiperión features the translation and prologue by Jesús Munárriz, and a preliminary by Luis Alberto de Cuenca.
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.
