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Article: Le Livre de Monelle.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2002
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Le Livre de Monelle. By MARCEL SCHWOB. Ed. by FERNANDO SCHIROST. (Testi Stranieri, 32) Fasano: Schena; Paris: Didier Erudition. 2000. 104 pp. 15,000 lire.
Le Livre de Monelle marks, together with Mimes, a shift from Schwob's two earlier collections, essentially of disparate stories previously published in periodicals, to the more unified volumes that closed his short creative career. However, the unity of Le Livre de Monelle is not unproblematic. As Remy de Gourmont noted, the link between the opening prophetic 'Paroles de Monelle', the subsequent tales about her 'soeurs', and the closing account of the narrator's encounters with her, seems to lack necessity. ...