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Impressions of Africa. / Raymond Roussel.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: : Donated by the English Department Diviani Chaudhuri (Dr. Vijay Tankha Collection)Publication details: , London : Calder and Boyars , 1966.Description: 317p. : 24cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 968 ROU
Summary: The first of Roussel's two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in a highly individual fashion and with an unusual time sequence, whereby the reader is even made to choose whether to begin with the first or the tenth chapter. A veritable literary melting pot, Roussel's groundbreaking text makes ample use of wordplay and the surrealist techniques of automatic writing and private allusion.
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The first of Roussel's two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in a highly individual fashion and with an unusual time sequence, whereby the reader is even made to choose whether to begin with the first or the tenth chapter.

A veritable literary melting pot, Roussel's groundbreaking text makes ample use of wordplay and the surrealist techniques of automatic writing and private allusion.

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