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(pp. 181–2 in the new edition of the Oulipo Compendium. Cortázar’s mention of Fassio; Fassio’s machine for reading Hopscotch.)
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Art by Dino Buzzati: here, here. (Belatedly) The Robert Walser Society of Western Massachusetts. Fiona MacCarthy returns to Eric Gill at the Guardian. A show inspired by Raymond Roussel at Yvon...
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Klaus Scherübel’s exhibition “Mallarmé, Het Boek” at S.M.A.K., Ghent (through December 6) explores Mallarmé’s book to come. (See here and here.) At the Drawing Center this Saturday at 4pm, Cynthia...
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(Illustration from Le Théâtre et Comoedia illustrée of the original theatrical production of Raymond Roussel’s Locus Solus in 1923, from Livrenblog by way of A Journey Round My Skull.)
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Belatedly: marginalia from Melville and David Foster Wallace. David Bellos pops up in The New York Times to talk about the perils of machine translation. Wakefield Press looks to be putting out some...
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An interesting post at Mute on young neofascists in Italy. A group show named “Resurrectine” at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts: somehow Raymond Roussel is more appreciated by the world of visual arts than...
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Ed Park on minor literature with reference to Garret Caples’s Quintessence of the Minor: Symbolist Poetry in English and John Ashbery’s taste. Not disconnected: two new translations of Raymond Roussel...
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Raymond Roussel Locus Solus (trans. Rupert Copeland Cuningham) (OneWorld Classics, 2008; originally published 1970) An uncommon amount of Raymond Roussel is in print in English: Mark Ford’s...
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William Gaddis (and his second wife Judith) evidently appeared as an extra in 1973’s Ganja & Hess, a cut-rate vampire movie. See him here, here, and here. A decent review of the new editions of...
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An article on Raymond Roussel appeared on page 62 of the 18 December 1910 edition of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, entitled “Yes He Really Likes to Work”: “Raymond Roussel is the most fortunate young...
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(pp. 181–2 in the new edition of the Oulipo Compendium. Cortázar’s mention of Fassio; Fassio’s machine for reading Hopscotch.)
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Art by Dino Buzzati: here, here. (Belatedly) The Robert Walser Society of Western Massachusetts. Fiona MacCarthy returns to Eric Gill at the Guardian. A show inspired by Raymond Roussel at Yvon...
View Articlenoted
Klaus Scherübel’s exhibition “Mallarmé, Het Boek” at S.M.A.K., Ghent (through December 6) explores Mallarmé’s book to come. (See here and here.) At the Drawing Center this Saturday at 4pm, Cynthia...
View Articlelocus solus at the theatre antoine
(Illustration from Le Théâtre et Comoedia illustrée of the original theatrical production of Raymond Roussel’s Locus Solus in 1923, from Livrenblog by way of A Journey Round My Skull.)
View Articlenoted
Belatedly: marginalia from Melville and David Foster Wallace. David Bellos pops up in The New York Times to talk about the perils of machine translation. Wakefield Press looks to be putting out some...
View Articlenoted
An interesting post at Mute on young neofascists in Italy. A group show named “Resurrectine” at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts: somehow Raymond Roussel is more appreciated by the world of visual arts than...
View Articlenoted
Ed Park on minor literature with reference to Garret Caples’s Quintessence of the Minor: Symbolist Poetry in English and John Ashbery’s taste. Not disconnected: two new translations of Raymond Roussel...
View Articleraymond roussel, “locus solus”
Raymond Roussel Locus Solus (trans. Rupert Copeland Cuningham) (OneWorld Classics, 2008; originally published 1970) An uncommon amount of Raymond Roussel is in print in English: Mark Ford’s...
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William Gaddis (and his second wife Judith) evidently appeared as an extra in 1973’s Ganja & Hess, a cut-rate vampire movie. See him here, here, and here. A decent review of the new editions of...
View Articleroussel in cleveland
An article on Raymond Roussel appeared on page 62 of the 18 December 1910 edition of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, entitled “Yes He Really Likes to Work”: “Raymond Roussel is the most fortunate young...
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