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This digital document, covering the life and work of Raymond Roussel, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1382 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Roussel (1877-1933) poeta frances poco conocido en su tiempo, escribio un libro titulado Como he escrito algunos de mis libros para ser leido despues de su muerte, y se retiro a Palermo donde de hecho se suicido en medio de una euforia producida por estupefacientes. Su obsesion estilistica era el juego acrobatico con las palabras que se parecen mucho pero que dicen cosas completamente diferentes. Este continuo desdoblamiento de palabras y de cosas a base de homografias tenia que provocar este sorprendente analisis desconstructivo de Foucault. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Review of Contemporary Fiction, published by Review of Contemporary Fiction on June 22, 2001. The length of the article is 1672 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams.(Review)(Brief Article)
Author: James Sallis
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2001
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: 21Issue: 2Page: 175

Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article

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This digital document is a journal article from Studies in History and Philosophy of Biol & Biomed Sci, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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French surrealist author Raymond Roussel's novel Locus solus depicted a brain-in-a-vat apparatus in which the head of the revolutionary orator Georges Danton was reanimated and made to speak. This scene of mechanically-produced language echoes Roussel's own method of quasi-mechanical literary production as presented in How I wrote certain of my books. Roussel's work participates in a wider fascination in modern French thought with the fragile connection, or violent disjuncture, between the body and mind. This paper discusses a number of instances in which bodiless and reanimated heads played a central role in reflections on knowledge, art, and individuality. Roussel's works offer a sidelong commentary on the notion of explanation in the sciences and the cult of reason in a technocratic society. ... Read more