Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Impressions Of AfricaISBN13:9781564786241ISBN10:1564786242Author:Roussel, Raymond (Author), Polizzotti, Mark (Translator)Description:In A Mythical African Land, Some Shipwrecked And Uniquely Talented Passengers Stage A Grand Gala To Entertain Themselves And Their Captor, The Great Chieftain Talou In Performance After Bizarre Performance--Starring, Among Others, A Zither-Playing Worm, A Marksman Who Can Peel An Egg At Fifty Yards, A Railway Car That Rolls On Calves' Lungs, And Fabulous Machines That Paint, Weave, And Compose Music--Raymond Roussel Demonstrates Why It Is That Andr? Breton Termed Him The Greatest Mesmerizer Of Modern Times But Even More Remarkable Than The Mind-Bending Events Roussel Details--As Well As Their Outlandish, Touching, Or Tawdry Backstories--Is The Principle Behind The Novel's Genesis, A Complex System Of Puns And Double-Entendres That Anticipated (And Helped Inspire) Such Movements As Surrealism And Oulipo Newly Translated And With An Introduction By Mark Polizzotti, This Edition Of Impressions Of Africa Vividly Restores The Humor, Linguistic Legerdemain, And Conceptual Wonder Of Raymond Roussel's Magnum Opus Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressPublication Date:2011-06-29Weight:0.82 lbsDimensions:0.87'' H x 7.97'' L x 5.54'' WNumber of Pages:279Language:English
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Book Title: Impressions of Africa
Item Length: 8in
Item Height: 0.9in
Item Width: 5.5in
Author: Raymond Roussel
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Literary, Action & Adventure
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication Year: 2011
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 13.2 Oz
Number of Pages: 279 Pages
