Impressions of Africa

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

RAYMOND ROUSSEL was born in Paris in 1877. His writings, including the novels Impressions of Africa and Locus Solus, as well as volumes of poetry and drama, were largely ignored in his lifetime, but have since been championed by the likes of Raymond Queneau, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Georges Perec, Harry Mathews, and John Ashbery. Roussel died under mysterious circumstances in 1933, decades before his work began receiving the popular acceptance he craved.

MARK POLIZZOTTI is the author of Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton and monographs on Luis Buñuel and Bob Dylan. He has translated over three dozen books.