Monday, August 23, 2010

Raymond Roussel






“A formidable poetic apparatus”
Marcel Proust

“Raymond Roussel belongs to the most important French literature of the beginning of the century”
Alain Robbe-Grillet

“Genius in its pure state”
Jean Cocteau

“Creator of authentic myths
Michel Leiris

“A great poet”
Marcel Duchamp

“The President of the Republic of Dreams”
Louis Aragon

“The greatest mesmerist of modern times”
André Breton

“The plays are among the strangest and most enchanting in modern literature”
John Ashbery

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