· Reviewed in the United States on Octo. Intriguing novel I came across by accident, Roussel's 'Impressions of Africa' is a fantastical tale showing an authorial imagination unbridled. It mixes ancient fables from around the world with amazing spectacles, performances, inventions and www.doorway.ru by: 9. Raymond Roussel, ne a Paris, le 20 janvier et mort a Palerme, en Italie, le 14 juillet , est un ecrivain, dramaturge et poete francais. Mark Polizzotti is the translator of more than thirty books from the French. His articles and reviews have appeared in The Wall Street Journal and The Nation. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.5/5(8). Reviewed in the United States on Octo. Intriguing novel I came across by accident, Roussel's 'Impressions of Africa' is a fantastical tale showing an authorial imagination unbridled. It mixes ancient fables from around the world with amazing spectacles, performances, inventions and Cited by: 9.
Raymond Roussel, Ian Monk (translator) NEW IMPRESSIONS OF AFRICA. £ Out of print. A precursor of the Oulipo translated and introduced by oulipian Ian Monk. Raymond Roussel: poet, novelist, neurasthenic, dandy, drug addict, probable suicide, above all an eccentric whose immense riches allowed him to indulge his most outrageous whims. These are just a handful of the more spectacular imaginary instruments described in Raymond Roussel's most extraordinary novel, Impressions d'Afrique (Impressions of Africa, ). Roussel himself was trained as a musician, having been admitted to the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 15 to study piano. His books Impressions d'Afrique and. Raymond Roussel, age three, on a swan. Raymond Roussel, c A page from a serialized publication of the novel Impressions d'Afrique in Le Gaulois du Dimanche, Poster for the theatrical version of Impressions d'Afrique, Paris, Theatre Antoine, a scene from Impressions d'Afrique, Dorival in the role of King Talu VII,
New Impressions of Africa is undoubtedly Roussel's most extraordinary work. Si. Poet, novelist, playwright, and chess enthusiast, Raymond Roussel () was one of the French belle époque's most compelling literary figures. During his lifetime, Roussel's work was vociferously championed by the surrealists, but never achieved the widespread acclaim for which he yearned. ―John Ashbery "Raymond Roussel's New Impressions of Africa is one of the strangest, densest, maddest, most hauntingly beautiful poems of the twentieth century. In a signal act of scholarship and linguistic finesse, the poet and critic Mark Ford―who also happens to be one of the world's prime Roussel scholars―has carried this extraordinary work across the border from French into English with exemplary skill and care. When he comes back with some coral-like momentos from his long dreamed of trip, he discovers he can make them come to life if he gives them some of his blood clots to eat. Definitely stuff you don't see every day. Roussel's work paints a picture of Africa as a very interesting and unusual land.
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