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Bezig met laden... The King in the Golden Mask (1892)door Marcel Schwob
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 1   paradoxosalpha | Jul 24, 2020 |    ) uncleflannery | May 16, 2020 |  ) biche1968 | Nov 22, 2013 | a possible influence on Robert W. Chambers, author of "The King in Yellow" (  ) Georges_T._Dodds | Mar 29, 2013 | J'ai particulièrement apprécié "Le roi au masque d'or", dédié à Anatole France ; les terribles "embaumeuses", dédié à Alphonse Daudet ; les "faulx-visaiges", dédié à Paul Arène ; la miniature médiévale qu'est "le sabbat de Mofflaines", dédié à Jean Lorrain ; "la Grande-Brière", dédié à Paul Hervieu et qui est si dans le ton d'un Maupassant. Si le lecteur ne connaît pas Marcel Schwob, ce livre est une bonne occasion de réparer cette injustice. ( )2 Veilleur_de_nuit | Mar 23, 2012 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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First published in French in 1892 and never before translated fully into English, The King in the Golden Mask gathers 21 of Marcel Schwob's cruelest and most erudite tales. Melding the fantastic with historical fiction, these stories describe moments of unexplained violence both historical and imaginary, often blending the two through Schwob's collaging of primary source documents into fiction. Brimming with murder, suicide, royal leprosy and medieval witchcraft, Schwob's stories portray clergymen furtively attending medieval sabbaths, Protestant galley slaves laboring under the persecution of Louis XIV and dice-tumbling sons of Florentine noblemen wandering Europe at the height of the 1374 plague. These writings are of such hallucinatory detail and linguistic specificity that the reader is left wondering whether they aren't newly unearthed historical documents. To read Schwob is to encounter human history in its most scintillating form as it comes into contact with this unparalleled imagination. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)843.8Literature French and related languages French fiction Later 19th century 1848–1900LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (4.26)
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The twenty-one stories are all vivid and well-suited to our short 21st-century attention spans. They generally begin in media res and often conclude without much plot resolution, so that they tend to fall towards the vignette within the spectrum of forms. Settings are mostly historical, and the language is often opaquely archaic, an effect that Schluter has been at some effort to sustain. Principal characters range among "lepers, embalming women, eunuchs, murderers, demoniacs, and pirates" and others (3). As Schwob avers in his foreword, the mask is a recurrent (if not ubiquitous) trope among the stories, and he intimates a sort of Derridean trace unifying the superficially fragmented book.
Favorites for me included the eschatological "Terrestrial Fire," the medieval documentation of "The Sabbat at Mofflaines," and the science-fictional "Talking Machine."