Marcel Schwob

Novelist, Author

1867 – 1905

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Who was Marcel Schwob?

Mayer André Marcel Schwob, known as Marcel Schwob was a Jewish French symbolist writer best known for his short stories and his literary influence on authors such as Jorge Luis Borges and Roberto Bolaño. He has been called a "surrealist precursor". 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 numbers of intellectuals and artists of the time.

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Born
Aug 23, 1867
Chaville
Nationality
  • France
Profession
Died
Feb 12, 1905
Paris

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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