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Cette uvre (edition relie) fait partie de la serie TREDITION
CLASSICS. La maison d'edition tredition, basee a Hambourg, a publie
dans la serie TREDITION CLASSICS des ouvrages anciens de plus de
deux millenaires. Ils etaient pour la plupart epuises ou uniquement
disponible chez les bouquinistes. La serie est destinee a preserver
la litterature et a promouvoir la culture. Avec sa serie TREDITION
CLASSICS, tredition a comme but de mettre a disposition des
milliers de classiques de la litterature mondiale dans differentes
langues et de les diffuser dans le monde entier.
Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), next-door neighbor of Marcel Proust,
can be described without exaggeration as the most eccentric writer
of the twentieth century. How I Wrote Certain of My Books is the
key to his unearthly style; it is accompanied by selections from
all his major works, translated by John Ashbery, Harry Mathews, and
others.
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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La Vue (Paperback)
Raymond Roussel
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R845
Discovery Miles 8 450
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Cette uvre fait partie de la serie TREDITION CLASSICS. La maison
d'edition tredition, basee a Hambourg, a publie dans la serie
TREDITION CLASSICS des ouvrages anciens de plus de deux
millenaires. Ils etaient pour la plupart epuises ou unique-ment
disponible chez les bouquinistes. La serie est destinee a preserver
la litterature et a promouvoir la culture. Avec sa serie TREDITION
CLASSICS, tredition a comme but de mettre a disposition des
milliers de classiques de la litterature mondiale dans differentes
langues et de les diffuser dans le monde entier.
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