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ROUSSEL (Raymond). *Nouvelles impressions d’Afrique*, follow…
See original version (French)
200
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ROUSSEL (Raymond). *Nouvelles impressions d’Afrique*, follow…
See original version (French)
Estimate €600 - €800
Voluntary lot
Description
ROUSSEL (Raymond). *Nouvelles impressions d’Afrique*, followed by *L’Âme de Victor Hugo*. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1932. In-12, paperback, untrimmed, uncut. First edition, illustrated with 59 full-page illustrations by Henri-Achille Zo.
One of the copies printed on imperial Japanese paper, the print run of which is unknown.
Dr Pierre Janet remarked of Roussel that he ‘has a very interesting conception of literary beauty; the work must contain nothing real, no observation of the world or of minds, nothing but entirely imaginary combinations: these are already ideas of a world beyond the human’. Roussel himself wrote: ‘For me, imagination is everything’.
See, on this subject, the article published by Michel Leiris in the journal *Critique*, ‘Conception and Reality in Raymond Roussel’, in 1954.
A copy as published, with all margins intact, complete with the insert *La Critique* and *Raymond Roussel*.
See original version (French)
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About the sale
Eros & Thanatos – Selected extracts from the L-D S library
Auction location
Auction time
10/07/2026 at 2:00 PM
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