Book of Monelle
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780984115587
Subjects: Literary movements; French literature, history and criticism, 19th century
Description: "The Book of Monelle" was the result of Schwob's intense emotional suffering over the loss of his love, a "girl of the streets" named Louise, whom he had befriended in 1891 and who succumbed to tuberculosis two years later. Transforming her into the innocent prophet of destruction, Monelle, Schwob tells the stories of her various sisters: girls succumbing to disillusionment, caught between the misleading world of childlike fantasy and the bitter world of reality.