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Canterel guides a group of visitors through his expansive estate, locus solus, where. Locus solus is not a story in any conventional sense, but consists of a series of surreal vignettes roussel was an inspiration to the surrealists set in the villa of the fabulously rich and brilliant master canterel. A lovely curiosity raymond roussel 18771933 variant magazine. Locus solus, mark amerikas autotranslation remix of raymond roussels novel of the same name has been published by counterpath press. Raymond roussel was born into a wealthy parisian family in 1877 and died in a hotel room in palermo in 1933. Raymond roussel especially locus solus and impressions of africa establishes a link between rabelais, lewis carroll, and georges perec.
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Raymond roussel 18771933, the author of the view 1904 and locus solus 19 occupies a unique place in literature, to which he dedicated his entire. In fall 2014, the artist and novelist mark amerika published locus solus. Click on a datetime to view the file as it appeared at that time. Kindle ebooks can be read on any device with the free kindle app. Based, like the earlier impressions of africa, on uniquely eccentric p.
The geographical details are precisely given in both cases, the difference being that vernes accord with the known facts of real geography, whereas roussels are plainly impossible. Roussel originally published his novel exactly 100 years ago in 1914. Poet, novelist, playwright, and chess enthusiast, raymond roussel. Locus solus, mark amerikas autotranslation remix of raymond. Locus solus is a 1914 french novel by raymond roussel. Martial, ou pierre janet et raymond roussel request pdf. His works have influenced such artists and writers as marcel duchamp roussel showed me the way, alberto giacometti, kenneth koch, alain robbegrillet, leonardo sciascia, paul auster, georges perec, and jim jarmusch. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Raymond roussel 18771933, nextdoor neighbor of marcel proust, can be described without exaggeration as the most eccentric writer of the twentieth century.
Through his novels, poems and plays he exerted a profound influence on certain groups within 20thcentury french literature, including the surrealists, oulipo and the authors of the nouveau roman. Raymond roussel and the republic of dreams on jstor. Amerikas literary remix is conceived as a work of performance art, one where the artist uses an array. Another such parallel exists between locus solus and the city in the sahara.
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