Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams: The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries

by Mark Ford

Raymond Roussel, one of the most outlandishly compelling literary figures of modern times, died in mysterious circumstances at the age of fifty-six in 1933. The story Mark Ford tells about Roussel's life and work is at once captivating, heartbreaking, and almost beyond belief. Could even Proust or Nabokov have invented a character as strange and memorable as the exquisite dandy and graphomaniac this book brings to life?Roussel's poetry, novels,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801438640
• ISBN13: 9780801438646
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher