SELECTIONS FROM CERTAIN OF HIS BOOKS ATLAS ANTHOLOGY VII

by Raymond Roussel

RAYMOND ROUSSEL (1877-1933) was perhaps the most extraordinary writer of this century. His bizarre work (and eccentric lifestyle) have attracted enthusiastic critical responses from many of his most illustrious contemporaries, and he has been claimed as a precursor by authors associated with the Surrealists, Pataphysicians, Tel Quel, Semioticians, 'Post Structuralists', and the Oulipo. This collection presents for the first time in English four of his most important works: two plays, his final novel, and his most famous long poem. The translations, hardly surprising given their authors, are superb. (back cover copy)

Genres: Poetry, French Literature, France, Drama

Paperback

First published July 1, 1991

About the author

Poet, storyteller, playwright and French essayist, born in Paris in 1877 and died in Palermo (Italy) in 1933. Author of a singular literary production of striking originality and dazzling imaginative force, applied with real obsessive fixation experiments applied to descriptive techniques and came to deploy a sort of automatic writing that made him one of the most brilliant of the surrealist movement.

Reviews

[Sari Gordon]

I'm not confusing this with "How I Wrote Certain of My Books," but the story of Raymond Roussel is fantastic. I hope it never gets bastardized as a movie and that he remains beautifully suspended in amber.