Between truthfulness and imagination and greatness and uniqueness, Marcel Schwob's Imaginary Lives is a compendium of short stories that recreate the lives of real characters from "not infrequently fantastic events" (Borges). The portraits of philosophers, poets, heroines, pirates, prostitutes and criminals that make up this work - first published in 1896 - can go through very short stories, just details of a landscape, or remember those biographical stamps that used to be obtained in stationery stores and that They are now community built on Wikipedia.