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New impressions of Africa by Roussel, Raymond, 1877-1933. is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Poet, novelist, playwright, and chess enthusiast, Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) was one of the French belle poque's most compelling literary figures. During his lifetime, Roussel's work was vociferously championed by the surrealists, but never achieved the widespread acclaim for which he yearned. New Impressions of Africa is undoubtedly Roussel's most extraordinary work. Since its publication in 1932, this weird and wonderful poem has slowly gained cult status, and its admirers have included Salvador Dalwho dubbed it the most "ungraspably poetic" work of the eraAndr Breton, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, Kenneth Koch, and John Ashbery. Roussel began writing New Impressions of Africa in 1915 while serving in the French Army during the First World War and it took him seventeen years to complete. "It is hard to believe the immense amount of time composition of this kind of verse requires," he later commented. Mysterious, unnerving, hilarious, haunting, both rigorously logical and dizzyingly sublime, it is truly one of the hidden masterpieces of twentieth-century modernism. This bilingual edition of New Impressions of Africa presents the original French text and the

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Author

Roussel, Raymond, 1877-1933.

Publisher

Atlas Press, 2004.

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781900565097

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Romance, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.53 / 5 (42 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13