In a mythical African land, some shipwrecked and uniquely
talented passengers stage a grand gala to entertain themselves and
their captor, the great chieftain Talou. In performance after
bizarre performance -- starring, among others, a zither-playing
worm, a marksman who can peel an egg at fifty yards, a railway car
that rolls on calves' lungs, and fabulous machines that paint,
weave, and compose music -- Raymond Roussel demonstrates why it is
that Andr? Breton termed him "the greatest mesmerizer of modern
times." But even more remarkable than the mind-bending events
Roussel details -- as well as their outlandish, touching, or tawdry
backstories -- is the principle behind the novel's genesis, a
complex system of puns and double-entendres that anticipated (and
helped inspire) such movements as Surrealism and Oulipo. Newly
translated and with an introduction by Mark Polizzotti, this
edition of "Impressions of Africa" vividly restores the humor,
linguistic legerdemain, and conceptual wonder of Raymond Roussel's
magnum opus.
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