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.
    • Eindrücke aus Afrika, trans. Cajetan Freund, Munich: Matthes und Seitz, 1980. (German)
    • Impressions of Africa, trans. & intro. Mark Polizzotti, Dalkey Archive Press, 2011, 280 pp. (English)
  • Locus Solus, 1914. A novel.
    • Locus Solus, trans. Cajetan Freund, 2nd ed., Frankfurt/M: Suhrkamp, 1983. (German)
    • Locus Solus. In der Druckfassung von 1914 und ergänzt durch Episoden aus der erstmals veröffentlichten Urfassung, trans. & notes Stefan Zweifel, Berlin: Die andere Bibliothek, 2012. (German)
  • L'étoile au front, 1925. A play.
    • "Der Stern auf der Stirn", in Roussel, Die Prädestinierten. 2 Theaterstücke, Munich: Hanser, 1978. (German)
  • La Poussière de soleil, 1926. A play.
    • "Sonnenstaub", in Roussel, Die Prädestinierten. 2 Theaterstücke, Munich: Hanser, 1978. (German)
  • 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)
  • In Havanna. Ein Romanfragment, ed. & trans. Hanns Grössel, Frankfurt/M: Syndikat/EVA, 1984. (German)
  • Chiquenaude und andere Texte aus früher Jugend, Berlin: Zero sharp 2014. (German)

Literature

  • Michel Foucault, Raymond Roussel, Paris: Gallimard, May 1963, 212 pp, PDF.
    • Raymond Roussel, trans. Patricio Canto, Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 1973; 1976, ARG, PDF. (Spanish)
    • "Schwelle und Schlüssel", trans. Hanns Grössel, in Raymond Roussel. Eine Dokumentation, ed. Hanns Grössel, Munich, 1977, pp 122-131. (German)
    • Raymond Roussel, Bologna: Cappelli, 1978, 175 pp; ed. & intro. Massimiliano Guareschi, Verona: Ombre corte, 2001, 188 pp. (Italian)
    • Death and the Labyrinth: the World of Raymond Roussel, trans. Charles Ruas, Athlone, 1987, 186 pp; Continuum, 2007, 227 pp, ARG, PDF. (English)
    • Raymond Roussel, trans. Renate Hörisch-Helligrath, Frankfurt am Main, 1989. (German)
    • Raymond Roussel, trans. Manoel Barros da Motta and Vera Lúcia Avellar Ribeiro, Rio de Janeiro: Forense Universitária, 1999. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • Rēmon Rūseru [レーモン・ルーセル], trans. Toyosaki Koichi (豊崎光一), Hōseidaigaku shuppan-kyoku (法政大学出版局), 2000. (Japanese)
    • Raymond Roussel, trans. Grzegorz Wilczyński, Warsaw: KR, 2001. (Polish)
    • Raymond Roussel, trans. Josef Fulka, Herrmann & synové, 2006, 203 pp, PDF. (Czech)
    • Raymond Roussel: Ölüm ve Labirent, trans. Savaş Kılıç, Koç Üniversitesi, 2013, 162 pp. (Turkish)
  • Michel Leiris, Roussel l’ingénu, Fata Morgana, 1987; repr. in Roussel & Co, 1998. Seven articles on Raymond Roussel from 1935-86.
  • Michel Leiris, Roussel & Co., eds. Jean Jamin and Annie Le Brun, Fata Morgana & Fayard, 1998. Contains Roussel l’ingénu (1987), correspondence with Roussel and a selection of texts.

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