Impressions of Africa

FIRST EDITION, of which no large paper copies were printed.

One should not expect an adventure novel, much less travel memoirs: Impressions

d'Afrique is a laboratory of literary experimentation, where the story begins at chapter I or chapter X, depending on the reader's choice; each word conceals another, each sentence contains in germ a novel to come. Edmond Rostand, first, was fascinated; then Marcel Duchamp, Michel Leiris, André Breton, Georges Perec... And yet, this masterful text, where the excesses of imagination are matched only by the extreme mastery of writing, did not even interest publishers, Roussel had to publish it at his own expense.