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Original title Vies imaginaires Language French Published in English 1982 Published in english 1982 | 4.2/5 Goodreads Translator Lorimer Hammond Publication date 1896 Originally published 1896 Country France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Bibliothèque-Charpentier (1896) Similar Works by Marcel Schwob, Classical Studies books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. Borges also translated the last story "Burke and Hare, Assassins" into Spanish.
Most chapters had been published individually in the newspaper Le Journal between 1894 and 1985. 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".
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