Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Das Buch von Monelle
Für wen es gedacht ist
You will love this book if you enjoy fairy tales with a dark edge, short stories you can read in one sitting, and poetry that speaks in images of lamps, mirrors and rain.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
What if the one you love can only be kept by letting her go? In The Book of Monelle, the French writer Marcel Schwob follows a girl who steps out of the night, speaks to a lone wanderer, and slips away again. Around her words he gathers small tales of girls who play, dream, run off and wait. You get a book of fleeting moments, and its first lesson is to destroy, then begin anew.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1Pity comes once out of the nightFree
- 2Destroy everything so that you can begin
- 3Little girls play at cruelty and death
- 4Girls who set out toward another country
- 5Dreamers, mirrors and the cost of waiting
- 6Monelle is found, loved and lost again
- 7A white kingdom hidden inside the black one
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Pity comes once out of the night
The book opens on a plain, where Monelle takes the writer by the hand. She says she is herself and not herself, that he will find her and lose her, and that few have seen her and none has understood her. First she tells him about the little prostitutes.
The young Bonaparte takes a nameless girl to his hotel room. Anne brings a glass of sweet wine to Thomas De Quincey as he stumbles along Oxford Street. Nelly gazes at Dostoevsky, and Sonia kisses Raskolnikov after his confession. Each one offers pity to a man in pain, then goes back into the dark, and nobody learns what became of her.
Monelle says to keep only that moment of kindness, when these girls were divine, and to forget all the rest. Then she says she is a little prostitute too, the one who is lost as soon as she is found. She gives the writer a burning fennel stalk and asks him to write her book.
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Questions about Das Buch von Monelle
What is The Book of Monelle about?
It is about a girl named Monelle who appears to a lone writer, teaches him to love the passing moment, and vanishes. Short tales of girls who play, dream and leave surround her teaching.
Who is Monelle?
Monelle is a figure in many forms: a speaker on a plain, a girl who leads children in play, a seamstress who leaves, a sleeper, and a leader. She says she has all names.
What does Monelle mean by destroy?
She means to break old forms, habits, memories and gods so that new ones can grow. Nothing should be kept, passed on or built to last, and every moment should be met fresh.
When was The Book of Monelle written, and is it a true story?
Marcel Schwob wrote it in French in the 1890s, and it is invented. It joins prose poems with fairy tales, and it mentions real figures like De Quincey and Dostoevsky only in Monelle's opening tale.
Is The Book of Monelle easy to read?
The language is simple and musical, with many small images of lamps, rain, mirrors and dolls to hold onto.