Raymond Roussel: Selections from Certain of His Books

by Raymond Roussel, Harry Mathews (Translator), John Ashbery (Translator)

Book by Roussel, Raymond, Shabery, John, Mathews, Harry, Melville, Antony, Sorrell

Genres: Poetry, French Literature, France, Drama

284 pages, 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.