Schwob, Marcel,  1867-1905 <br/><br/>
Vies imaginaires 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_Lives  Release date is 2015-08-16 
<br/><br/>Empédocle -- Erostrate -- Cratès -- Septima -- Lucrèce -- Clodia -- Pétrone -- Sufrah -- Frate Dolcino -- Cecco Angiolieri -- Paolo Uccello -- Nicolas Loyseleur -- Katherine la Dentellière -- Alain le Gentil -- Gabriel Spenser -- Pocahontas -- Cyril Tourneur -- William Phips -- Le capitaine Kid -- Walter Kennedy -- Le major Stede Bonnet -- Mm. Burke et Hare. 
<br/><br/>Produced by Laura Natal Rodrigues & Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France.)  Produced by Laura Natal Rodrigues & Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France.) 
<br/><br/> "Vies imaginaires" by Marcel Schwob is a collection of twenty-two semi-biographical short stories published in 1896. Blending historical facts with fantastical elements, these biographical fictions reimagine the lives of obscure and famous figures alike. This pioneering work helped establish biographical fiction as a genre and profoundly influenced Jorge Luis Borges, who translated one story and drew inspiration for his own Universal History of Infamy. Schwob transforms biography into an art of creative reinvention. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Biographical fiction, French 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ