Schwob, Marcel
Entry updated 2 June 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1867-1905) French author whose fantasies were influential on authors like Jorge Luis Borges; it is not known if Clark Ashton Smith read his work, though resemblances in tone and venue make this not unlikely. For his story "La Mort d'Odjigh" ["The Death of Odjigh"] (1892; in Le roi au masque d'or et autres nouvelles, coll 1893; trans by Iain White in The King in the Golden Mask, coll 1982), see Origin of Man. [JC]
Marcel Schwob
born Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France: 23 August 1867
died Paris: 12 February 1905
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- Le roi au masque d'or et autres nouvelles (Paris: Ollendorff, 1893) [coll: hb/]
- The King in the Golden Mask and Other Stories (Manchester, England: Carcanet New Press, 1982) [coll: trans by Iain White of the above: hb/photographic]
- The King in the Golden Mask (Mile End, South Australia: Wakefield Press, 2017) [coll: new trans by Kit Schluter of the above: hb/]
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