The cover image of the original 1896 edition of Vies imaginaires (Imaginary Lives)
Author
Marcel Schwob
Original title
Vies imaginaires
Translator
Lorimer Hammond, Chris Clarke.
Country
France
Language
French
Publisher
Bibliothèque-Charpentier (1896)
Publication date
1896
Published in English
1924, 1952 (paperback, Avon), 2018 (New translation).
Media type
Print
Imaginary Lives (original French title: Vies imaginaires) is a collection of twenty-two semi-biographical short stories by Marcel Schwob, first published in book form in 1896. Mixing known and fantastical elements, it was one of the first works in the genre of biographical fiction. The book is an acknowledged influence in Jorge Luis Borges's first book A Universal History of Infamy (1935). Borges also translated the last story "Burke and Hare, Assassins" into Spanish.[1]
Most chapters had been published individually in the newspaper Le Journal between 1894 and 1895. For the collected edition he substituted "Vie de Morphiel, démiurge" with "Matoaka", which had appeared in 1893 in L'Echo de Paris and that he renamed "Pocahontas, princesse".[2] The story "Lilith" about painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti was provably the first one that he wrote in the genre of biographical fiction. It had already been collected in 1891 in the book Coeur double, and perhaps that is the reason it was not included in Imaginary Lives.
Originally translated into English in 1924 by Lorimer Hammond, Imaginary Lives was published in a new translation by Chris Clarke (Wakefield Press, 2018), a translation which was awarded the 2019 French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction.
^The King in the Golden Mask and Other Writings / by Marcel Schwob; selected, translated, and introduced by Iain White. Manchester : Carcanet New Press, 1982. pp. 9-13
^Schwob, Marcel. Chroniques. Geneve: DROZ, 1981. p. 204
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