by Marcel Schwob · Abraxas Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496196117
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«El rey de la máscara de oro» is Marcel Schwob's book of fantastic short stories, published by Abraxas Ediciones in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
«El rey de la máscara de oro» brings together short stories by Marcel Schwob in which the fantastic blends with the sensual and the philosophical. With echoes of Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Schwob tackles cases of teratology, daydreams and opium dreams, revealing his penchant for erudition and the unusual.
«El rey de la máscara de oro» was originally published in French as Le Roi au masque d'or in 1892; this Spanish edition belongs to the Laberinto collection.
This work is suitable for readers of fantastic and classic horror tales, and for those interested in nineteenth-century French literature.
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.
