Marcel Schwob

Marcel Schwob ( born August 23, 1867 in Chaville, Département Hauts -de -Seine, † February 26, 1905 in Paris) was a French writer and translator. He stood close to the Symbolists.

Life

After his childhood Schwob visited Paris in the Lycée Louis -le- Grand, where he distinguished himself especially in old and new languages. However, it fails to be accepted at the École Normale Supérieure, he is but with distinction in the Licence Languages ​​and Literature in 1888. However, the following year he fails at the Agrégation, which would have allowed him an academic career.

In 1884 he discovered Robert Louis Stevenson and translated it into French. He also translated Shakespeare's Hamlet ( the play was performed in 1900 in the translation Schwob with Sarah Bernhardt ), working with Pierre Louÿs to the final version of the play Salomé, which Oscar Wilde had written in French. In appreciation of his oeuvre Wilde 's poem The Sphinx. Schwob published one of the first studies on the argot, a secret language of beggars and crooks in medieval France, followed by a brilliant monograph on François Villon.

He also publishes stories that are close to the prose poem in form and style. Notoriety gain The book Monelle (Le livre de Monelle, 1894 ) and the imaginary CVs ( Vies Imaginaires, 1896), in which Schwob fills gaps in the traditional biographies of some historical personalities with poetic imagination.

In 1900, Schwob married actress Marguerite Moréno ( 1871-1948 ), whom he met in 1895. However, his health is deteriorating, mainly because of a morphine addiction. He tries to escape his fate by traveling, first to Jersey and then to Samoa, where Stevenson has just died. Marcel Schwob died in Paris in 1905.

Paul Valéry Schwob dedicated two of his works - Introduction à la méthode de Léonard de Vinci and Soirée avec M. Teste - Alfred Jarry Ubu Roi dedicated to him. The Children's Crusade is one of the twenty-seven books of the library of Dr. Faust Roll. Schwob influenced writers such as André Gide ( especially in the Nourritures terrestres ), Jules Renard, Remy de Gourmont, Paul Léautaud, Georges Rodenbach, Charles- Louis Philippe, Paul Claudel, William Faulkner, and Jorge Luis Borges.

Works

  • The book Monelle ( " Le Livre de Monelle "). Ullsteinhaus, Frankfurt / M. 1983, ISBN 3-548-3014-5-2.
  • Chroniques. Droz, Geneva, 1981 ( Histoire des idées et critique litteraire; 195).
  • Dialogues d' utopia. Contes et récits. Edition Ombres, Toulouse 2001, ISBN 2-84142-152- X ( Petite bibliothèque ombres, 150).
  • Étude sur l' argot français ( with Georges Guieysse ). Bouillon, Paris 1889.
  • François Villon. Alba Edition, Paris, 1990, ISBN 2-904235-23- X ( Nachdr d ed Paris 1912).
  • The cleaved Heart ( " Cœur double" ). 2nd edition Publisher ivory, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-932245-71-7.
  • The Children's Crusade. A legend ( " La Croisade des enfants "). Thorbecke, Lindau, 1949 ( Nachdr d ed Leipzig 1917).
  • " The Children's Crusade ". Ivory Verlag, Berlin, 2012, ISBN 978-3-941184-19-0.
  • The king with the golden mask ( " Le Roi au masque d'or "). Alano Verlag, Aachen, 1988, ISBN 3-924007-33-0.
  • La lampe de Psyché. Mercure de France, Paris 1925 ( Paris Nachdr d ed 1903).
  • La Légende de Serlon de Wilton. In: ders. Oeuvre competeS, Vol 7, pp. 361-377 ( Nachdr d ed Paris 1899).
  • Mimes. Mercure de France, Paris, 1964 ( Nachdr d ed Paris 1893).
  • Mœurs of diurnales. Traité de journalisme. Editions of Cendres, Paris, 1985, ISBN 2-86742-006-7 ( Nachdr d ed Paris 1903, was published under the pseudonym " Loyson - Bridet ").
  • Le Parnassus satyrique you XVe siècle. Anthologie de pièces libres. Slatkine, Geneva 1969 ( d Nachdr Paris 1905).
  • The novel of the twenty-two CVs ( " Vies imaginaires "). German by Jakob Hegner. Greno: Nördlingen, 1986, ISBN 3-921568-81-1 ( Nachdr d ed Hellerau 1925).
  • Spicilège. Mercure de France, Paris, 1960 ( Nachdr d ed Paris 1896).
  • The Star Brand ( ' L' étoile de bois "). Thorbecke, Lindau 1948.
  • Vie de Morphiel, Démiurge. Edition of Cendres, Paris, 1985, ISBN 2-86742-007-5.
  • Francis Marion Crawford: Francesca da Rimini. 2nd edition Bernouard, Paris 1928.
  • Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders. Gallimard, Paris, 1969 ( Nachdr d ed Paris 1895).
  • John Ford: Annabella Giovanni et. Paris 1895.
  • Wilhelm Richter: Les jeux et des Romains of Grecs. Le promeneur Edition, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-07-076039-1, ( d Nachdr Ed Paris 1891).
  • William Shakespeare: La tragique histoire de Hamlet. 2nd edition Bernouard, Paris 1928.
  • Correspondance inédite. Droz, Geneva 1985.
  • Bernard Gauthier (ed.): Verse Samoa. Lettres à Marguerite Moreno ( octobre 1901 - mars 1902); contenant le journal d'un voyage par Port- Saïd, Dijbouti, Ceylan et l' Australie; lettres de Robert Louis Stevenson à Marcel Schwob. Edition des Ombres, Toulouse 2002, ISBN 2-84142-155-4 ( Petite bibliothèque ombres, 151).
  • Correspondance Schwob - Stevenson (1992 )
  • Jean Lorrain: Lettres à Marcel Schwob. Edition you Leirot, Tusson 2006.
  • Oeuvres completes. Slatkine, Geneva, 1985 ( 10 vols ).
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