Locus Solus (French Edition) - Softcover

Roussel, Raymond; Ligaran

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2335028324 ISBN 13: 9782335028324

Publisher: Ligaran, 2015

Synopsis

"Locus Solus est un roman fascinant de l'écrivain français Raymond Roussel, publié en 1914. Ce livre est une œuvre complexe et innovante qui mêle fiction, science-fiction et surréalisme.
L'histoire se déroule dans un château isolé, où le mystérieux et excentrique Dr. Martial Canterel invite un groupe de visiteurs à découvrir ses incroyables inventions et expériences scientifiques. Chaque chapitre du livre présente une nouvelle invention ou découverte, allant d'une machine à ressusciter les morts à un jardin de statues animées.
Locus Solus est un livre qui défie les conventions littéraires et explore des thèmes tels que la mort, la création et la nature de la réalité. L'écriture de Roussel est riche en détails et en imagination, et son style unique a influencé de nombreux écrivains et artistes du 20e siècle.
Ce roman est un véritable voyage dans l'esprit de son auteur, et offre une expérience de lecture inoubliable pour ceux qui sont prêts à se plonger dans un univers littéraire hors du commun. Locus Solus est un chef-d'œuvre de la littérature française, et un incontournable pour les amateurs de littérature expérimentale et de fiction imaginative.

Extrait : ""Ce jeudi de commençant avril, mon savant ami le maître Martial Canterel m'avait convié, avec quelques autres de ses intimes, à visiter l'immense parc environnant sa belle villa de Montmorency."""

About this title

About the Author

Raymond Roussel was born into a wealthy Parisian family in 1877 and died in a hotel room in Palermo in 1933. His works have influenced such artists and writers as Marcel Duchamp ("Roussel showed me the way"), Alberto Giacometti, Kenneth Koch, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Leonardo Sciascia, Paul Auster, Georges Perec, and Jim Jarmusch.

Review

Genius in its pure state. The Proust of dreams.--Jean Cocteau

Raymond Roussel s works immediately absorbed me: I was taken by the prose style even before learning what was behind it the process, the machines, the mechanisms and no doubt when I discovered his process and his techniques, the obsessional side of me was seduced a second time by the shock of learning of the disparity between this methodically applied process, which was slightly naive, and the resulting intense poetry.--Michel Foucault"

Originally published in 1914, Roussel s extraordinary novel still feels fresh more than a hundred years later... Both a guide to a deranged scientist s estate and a prism for refracting Roussel s diverse stories, this incredible novel is somehow both Gothic and modern at the same time.--Seth Satterlee"

Originally published in 1914, Roussel's extraordinary novel still feels fresh more than a hundred years later... Both a guide to a deranged scientist's estate and a prism for refracting Roussel's diverse stories, this incredible novel is somehow both Gothic and modern at the same time.--Seth Satterlee

There is hidden in Roussel something so strong, so ominous, and so pregnant with the darkness of the 'infinite spaces' that frightened Pascal, that one feels the need for some sort of protective equipment when one reads him.--John Ashbery

Raymond Roussel's works immediately absorbed me: I was taken by the prose style even before learning what was behind it--the process, the machines, the mechanisms--and no doubt when I discovered his process and his techniques, the obsessional side of me was seduced a second time by the shock of learning of the disparity between this methodically applied process, which was slightly naive, and the resulting intense poetry.--Michel Foucault

Edition details

• Publisher: Ligaran
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: French
• ISBN 10: 2335028324
• ISBN 13: 9782335028324
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198