Raymond Roussel

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New Impressions of Africa/Nouvelles Impressions D'AfriquePaperback, 28 October 2012

New Impressions of Africa/Nouvelles Impressions D'Afrique
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Part of Series
Facing Pages
Print Length
264 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date Published
28 Oct 2012
ISBN-10
0691156034
ISBN-13
9780691156033

Description

A new translation of a masterpiece of modernist poetry

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also includes an introduction outlining the poem's peculiar structure and evolution, notes explaining its literary and historical references, and the fifty-nine illustrations anonymously commissioned by Roussel, via a detective agency, from Henri-A. Zo.

Product Details

Author:
Raymond Roussel
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
28 October 2012
Dimensions:
21.34 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm
Genre:
French
ISBN-10:
0691156034
ISBN-13:
9780691156033
Language:
English
Location:
Princeton
Pages:
264
Weight:
340.19 gm

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