Impressions of Africa

Raymond Roussel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2012
Alma Classics (Verlag)
978-1-84749-270-8 (ISBN)

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A veritable literary melting pot, Roussel's groundbreaking text makes ample use of wordplay and the surrealist techniques of automatic writing and private allusion.

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 adventure story put together in a highly individual fashion and with an unusual time sequence, whereby the reader is even made to choose whether to begin with the first or the tenth chapter. A veritable literary melting pot, Roussel’s groundbreaking text makes ample use of wordplay and the surrealist techniques of automatic writing and private allusion.

Raymond Roussel (Paris, January 20, 1877 - Palermo, July 14, 1933) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, chess enthusiast, neurasthenic, and drug addict. Through his novels, poems, and plays he exerted a profound influence on certain groups within 20th-century French literature, including the Surrealists, Oulipo, and the authors of the nouveau roman.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.3.2012
Übersetzer	Rayner Heppenstall, Lindy Foord
Verlagsort	Richmond
Sprache	englisch
Maße	128 x 198 mm
Gewicht	288 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
ISBN-10	1-84749-270-3 / 1847492703
ISBN-13	978-1-84749-270-8 / 9781847492708
Zustand	Neuware