Imaginary Lives【電子書籍】[ Marcel Schwob ]

＜p＞＜strong＞“The art of the biographer consists specifically in choice. He is not meant to worry about speaking truth; he must create human characteristics amidst the chaos.”ーMarcel Schwob＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Imaginary Lives＜/em＞ remains, over 120 years since its original publication in French, one of the secret keys to modern literature: under-recognized, yet a decisive influence on such writers as Apollinaire, Borges, Jarry and Artaud, and more contemporary authors such as Roberto Bola?o and Jean Echenoz. Drawing from historical influences such as Plutarch and Diogenes La?rtius, and authors more contemporary to him such as Thomas De Quincey and Walter Pater, Schwob established the genre of fictional biography with this collection: a form of narrative that championed the specificity of the individual over the generality of history, and the memorable detail of a vice over the forgettable banality of a virtue.＜/p＞ ＜p＞These 22 portraits present figures drawn from the margins of history, f．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る