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Roussel, Raymond,

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Poet, novelist, playwright, and chess enthusiast, Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) 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. New Impressions of Africa is undoubtedly Roussel's most extraordinary work. Since its publication in 1932, this weird and wonderful poem has slowly gained cult status, and its admirers have included Salvador Dalì--who dubbed it the most "ungraspably poetic" work of the era--André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, Kenneth Koch, and John Ashbery. Roussel began writing New Impressions of Africa in 1915 while serving in the French Army during the First World War and it took him seventeen years to complete. "It is hard to believe the immense amount of time composition of this kind of verse requires," he later commented. Mysterious, unnerving, hilarious, haunting, both rigorously logical and dizzyingly sublime, it is truly one of the hidden masterpieces of twentieth-century modernism. This bilingual edition of New Impressions of Africa presents the original French text and the English poet Mark Ford's lucid, idiomatic translation on facing pages. It also includes an introduction outlining the poem's peculiar structure and evolution, notes explaining its literary and historical references, and the fifty-nine illustrations anonymously commissioned by Roussel, via a detective agency, from Henri-A. Zo.

POETRY / European / General. --- French poetry --- Roussel, Raymond, --- Translations into English.

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Comme le raconte le premier texte de ce volume, un vaste ensemble de manuscrits de Raymond Roussel – totalement inconnu – surgissait en 1989. C’est dans le remous provoqué par cette découverte que s’est tenu à Cerisy du 10 au 20 août 1991 le colloque : “Raymond Roussel, perversion classique ou invention moderne ?” Les différents travaux que rassemble ce volume représentent ainsi une étape importante de la réflexion sur l’auteur des Impressions d’Afrique et de Locus Solus. C’est aussi un état des multiples orientations de la recherche roussellienne ; histoire littéraire, herméneutique, toutes ces approches singulières témoignent de la disponibilité du texte roussellien. Elles proposent au lecteur de saisir, sur le vif, l’une des aventures littéraires et critiques les plus passionnantes de ce vingtième siècle, autour d’un écrivain capital qui avant de mourir souhaita “un peu d’épanouissement posthume à l’endroit de [ses] livres”.

Literary Theory & Criticism --- Poetry --- création littéraire --- roman --- poésie --- French literature --- Roussel, Raymond

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Roussel, Raymond, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Critique et interprétation --- Literature --- Literature. --- Critique et interprétation --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Sociology of literature --- French literature --- literary theory --- literary history --- Surrealist --- Bojer, Johan --- Proust, Marcel --- Cocteau, Jean --- Eluard, Paul --- Péret, Benjamin --- Roussel, Raymond --- Tzara, Tristan --- Blanche, Jacques-Emile --- Soupault, Philippe --- Sade, de, Donatien A.F. --- Baudelaire, Charles --- Breton, André --- Rimbaud, Arthur --- Gauguin, Paul --- Delteil, Joseph --- Apollinaire, Guillaume --- Jarry, Alfred --- Gide, André --- #TS:KOMA --- literatuur, Frankrijk