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Roussel, Raymond |
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Roussel, Raymond, 1877–1933, French writer. Roussel was an eccentric whose beautifully written work employed hallucinatory imagery while eschewing emotion and the expression of personality. At first generally unappreciated, Roussel's writing—most notably, Impressions d'Afrique (1910) and How I Write Certain of My Books (1935, tr. 1971)—is now recognized as anticipating both surrealism surrealism (sərē`əlĭzəm) ..... Click the link for more information. and the nouveau roman [new novel] (see French literature French literature, writings in medieval French dialects and standard modern French. Writings in Provençal and Breton are considered separately, as are works in French produced abroad (as at Canadian literature, French ). ..... Click the link for more information. ). BibliographySee biography by M. Ford, Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams (2001); study by M. Foucault (1963, tr. 1987). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| First, the work of Robert Kingdon, Bernard Roussel, Raymond Mentzer, Glenn Sunshine, and others has now made it very clear that the Calvinist church in France was hardly a mirror image of the Calvinist church in Geneva. |
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