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The Book of Monelle is his most personal and many say best work. Referred to as the bible of the French Symbolist movement its a collection of fairytales he initially wrote for his girl as she lay dying from syphilis (I think it was that), after she died he finished the collection and turned it into an amazing expression of pure grief in the form of the fantastic. It's easily my favorite book ever, and also probably the easiest place to start with him. Much of his work besides Monelle is filled with very erudite references to things like ancient Greek plays and medieval French myths. Monelle still has this stuff but not to an extreme degree.

Why haven't you read the Bible of symbolism yet? And you call yourself well read....

>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 Stéphane Mallarmé, Alfred Jarry and André Gide. A carefully woven assemblage of legends, aphorisms, fairy tales and nihilistic philosophy, it remains a deeply enigmatic and haunting work more than a century later, a gathering of literary and personal ruins written in a style that evokes both the Brothers Grimm and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Any of you guys read later Symbolists like Marcel Schwob or Gustav Meynrink. Pic related, one of the best books I have ever read.

Name me a better fantasist piece than this