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Taschenbuch: 256 Seiten
Verlag: Atlas Press; Auflage: New edition (1. Februar 2005)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1900565099
ISBN-13: 978-1900565097
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 18,8 x 17 x 2,2 cm
Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 987.250 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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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, but who spent most of his life secreted in his darkened study producing works whose strangeness remains unsurpassed. "New Impressions of Africa is probably this strange writer's strangest work" says the translator of this first English edition of Roussel's final creative work. It's a poem, but a poem unlike any published before or since. Its structure resembles hypertext, endless successions of afterthoughts separated by ever growing clumps of brackets which plunge the reader into a labyrinth at once banal and vertiginous. It took him 12 years to compose, or as he himself calculated, approximately 19,110 hours. The book was illustrated by an artist Roussel commissioned through a private detective agency so as not to have to show him the text he was illustrating. The pictures are trapped inside uncut pages, and one of them depicts a man peering into the uncut pages of a book.This is Roussel's masterpiece.

It prompted Raymond Queneau to declare that Roussel "combined a poet's logic with the mathematician's delirium". Marcel Duchamp called him "a great poet" and freely acknowledged his influence, Salvador Dali loved the pictures! This beautiful edition reproduces the original format with its special uncut pages, includes the French text opposite the English, and Roussel's instructions to the despondent Zo. The translation is by Ian Monk with the assistance of Harry Mathews, both members of the Oulipo, a (mainly French) group of writers and mathematicians. Ian Monk won the 2003 Scott-Moncrieff Prize for literary translation from French.

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Eccentric genius 15. M�rz 2011

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Yes, he was an eccentric genius. And we just love him. Pardon me if i send a flippant (and okay, weak) review for the uninitiated:

Can we, by chance (and here one wonders in chancy prose ((never poetry, as the unlucky literary aspirant attempts to deflect (((although in deflecting , the glint reflects))) meaning from form)) whether the poet is oft misunderstood), ever find ourselves in flight from art?

Ach...
he had time, space and money to create his works - each publication different in style and form. So have many people, but they didn't produce works like this, in obsessive intensity.

Mark Ford has done a fine fine job here. This complex work has been lucidly transliterated, and finely organised, considering the structure of the work is as important(?) as the writing.

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