Mayer André Marcel Schwob, known as Marcel Schwob, was a French symbolist writer best known for his short stories and his literary influence on authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Alfonso Reyes, Roberto Bolaño and Patricio Pron. He has been called a "precursor of Surrealism". In addition to over a hundred short stories, he wrote journalistic articles, essays, biographies, literary reviews and analysis, translations and plays. He was extremely well known and respected during his life and notably befriended a great number of intellectuals and artists of the time.
Marcel Schwob (1900s)
Interior cover of the comics anthology Lapin, issue 16 (July 1997), featuring a portrait of Schwob by Emmanuel Guibert.
Claude Cahun was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer.
Claude Cahun
This plaque on Cahun's house in Saint Brélade, Jersey, celebrates her photographic innovation.
Claude Cahun's gravestone in the cemetery of St. Brelade's Church, Jersey
Street sign for allée Claude Cahun–Marcel Moore in the 6th arrondissement of Paris