Raymond Roussel’s Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique is a remarkable book: four poems, describing sites in Africa, each digressing into an elaborate structure of nested parentheses. Roussel published it himself; and to thicken it, commissioned 59 illustrations. Characteristically, he avoided contact with the illustrator, preferring to hire a detective agency to find an artist, who then drew … Continue reading From Roussel’s “Indications”
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