Raymond Roussel
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Raymond Roussel (January 20, 1877 - July 14, 1933) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, and chess enthusiast. Through his novels, poems, and plays he exerted a profound influence on certain groups within 20th century French literature, including the Surrealists, Oulipo, and the authors of the nouveau roman.
Works
(in French unless noted)
- "Mon âme", 1897. A poem.
- La Doublure, Alphonse Lemerre, 1897. A novel in verse.
- La Seine, 1900. A novel in verse.
- Chiquenaude, 1900. A novel.
- "La vue", 1904. A poem.
- "Le concert", 1904. A poem.
- "La source", 1904. A poem.
- Impressions d'Afrique, 1910.
- Impressions of Africa, trans. & intro. Mark Polizzotti, Dalkey Archive Press, 2011, 280 pp. (English)
- Locus Solus, 1914. A novel.
- L'étoile au front, 1925. A play.
- La Poussière de soleil, 1926. A play
- Nouvelles Impressions d'Afrique, 1932. A poem of four cantos with 59 drawings by Henri-A. Zo.
- New Impressions of Africa / Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique, trans., intro. & notes Mark Ford, Princeton University Press, 2011, 260 pp. (French)/(English)
- Comment j'ai écrit certains de mes livres, 1935.
- How I Wrote Certain of my Books, trans. Trevor Winkfield, 1995. (English) Contains a cross-section of his major writings, including Roussel's essay on how he composed his books, the first chapter of each of Impressions d'Afrique and Locus Solus, the fifth act of a play, the third canto of New Impressions of Africa and all 59 of its drawings, and the outline for a novel Roussel apparently never wrote.
- Parmi les noirs, 1935.
- Among the Blacks: Two Works, 1988. (English)
Literature
- Michel Foucault, Raymond Roussel, Paris: Gallimard, 1963.
