The Book of Monelle - Marcel Schwob Tim Lawrence print and environmental designs by

print and environmental designs by Gere Kavanaugh and Deborah Sussman

the role of technology in the arts and the need for art to ignore nature in its quest to discover new planetary organs and senses

are two highly unusual novels from one of the fin-de-siècle’s most eccentric writers

and more or less half way between Meyrink and Kafka

Hollings also turns his idiosyncratic gaze upon key aspects of teenage culture during the 1960s

The Book of Monelle - Marcel Schwob Tim Lawrence print and environmental designs byThe Book of Monelle by Marcel Schwob ISBN 9780984115587 small paperback with flaps Wakefield Press *** When Marcel Schwob published The Book of Monelle in French in 1894, it immediately became the unofficial bible of the French symbolist movement, admired by such contemporaries as Stephane Mallarm, Alfred Jarry, and Andr Gide. A carefully woven assemblage of legends, aphorisms, fairy tales, and nihilistic philosophy, it remains a deeply enigmatic and