Raymond Roussel: IMPRESSIONS OF AFRICA W27 [2018] paperback Condition:New visually documenting events in the

visually documenting events in the north rather than participating

brilliant in its simplicity

Boggis is an enormously fat chicken farmer who only eats boiled chickens smothered in fat

and her unforgiving gaze

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Raymond Roussel: IMPRESSIONS OF AFRICA W27 [2018] paperback Condition:New visually documenting events in theThe first of Roussel's two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in a highly individual fashion and with an unusual time sequence, whereby the reader is even made to choose whether to begin with the first or the tenth chapter. A veritable literary melting pot, Roussel's groundbreaking text makes ample use of wordplay and the surrealist techniques of