How I Wrote Certain of My Books

How I Wrote Certain of My Books
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Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), next-door neighbor of Marcel Proust, can be described without exaggeration as the most eccentric writer of the twentieth century. His unearthly style based on elaborate linguistic riddles and puns fascinated the Surrealists and famously influenced the composition of Marcel Duchamp's â€œLarge Glass,â€ but also affected writers as diverse as Gide, Robbe-Grillet and Foucault (author of a book-length study of Roussel). The title essay of this collection is the key to Rousselâ€™s method, and it is accompanied by selections from all his major works of fiction, drama and poetry, translated by his New York School admirers John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and Harry Mathews, and the painter and author Trevor Winkfield. Ashbery writes that Rousselâ€™s work is â€œlike the perfectly preserved temple of a cult which has disappeared without a traceâ€¦ we can still admire its inhuman beauty, and be stirred by a language that seems always on the point of revealing its secret.â€
Country USA
Brand Brand: Exact Change
Manufacturer Exact Change
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2005-08-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781878972149

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