Author: Raymond Roussel

The long-awaited new translation of the most dazzling and unclassifiable work of fiction in any language.

Based, like the earlier Impressions of Africa, on uniquely eccentric principles of composition, this book invites the reader to enter a world which...

The first of Roussel''s two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an advent...

Poet, novelist, playwright, and chess enthusiast, Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) was one of the French belle poque's most compelling literary figures....