"Things, words, vision and death, the sun and language make a unique form ... Roussel, in some way, has defined its geometry." --Michel Foucault Raymond Roussel is one of the most distinctive and compelling French writers of the 20th century, yet many aspects of his life remain shrouded in mystery. An extremely wealthy and always exquisitely dressed homosexual dandy, Roussel was also a compulsive writer. Despite the strangeness...