/lit/ - Literature

Marcel Schwob is one of my favorite writers ever and I don't understand why he is still utterly forgotten/ignored. Wakefield Press have come out with a new work of his and its description reminded me of just how prestigious an author Schwob really was and once again had me question how tf no one really reads him. Most of his works struggle to reach ever a couple hundred ratings on goodreads and I've never really seen him mentioned here except very rarely in passing. Yet during his time and for many incredibly well known authors today like Borges he was crucial in guiding entire bodies of work.
what gives? Look how cool this book sounds. Yet is there any fanfare for its release last month anywhere, among anyone? Not that I can see. It's sad.

>“All over the world,” wrote Jorge Luis Borges, “there are devotees of the writer Marcel Schwob who constitute little secret societies.” One could argue that Spicilege, Schwob’s last book published under his name, constitutes the handbook to these societies: a handbook to Schwob’s work, to himself as erudite scholar and author, and to the twilight of the era of French symbolism that was giving way to a new, complex modernism—a modernity that would encompass such disparate entities as Paul Valéry and Alfred Jarry (both of whom would dedicate books to Schwob).

https://wakefieldpress.com/schwob_spicilege.html