Imaginary Lives

Vidas imaginarias (1895) narrates the "life of some poets, gods, murderers and pirates, as well as several princesses and gallant ladies...". But it does not do so in the conventional way of biographers, who only appreciated "public life or grammar", "the ideas of great men" and those points where their lives "joined the general actions", but in an artistic way. Neither biographies nor history speak of the individuality of men, they only give dates and ideas. And what interests Marcel Schwo...