The intensively worked manuscripts of Impressions d’Afrique contain a number of events and characters missing from the published novel, but in general it is much less ruthlessly edited than its successor, Locus solus, from which Roussel removed a whole series of fully developed episodes. While waiting for the arrival of the ransom money demanded by […]
The gala is won in the published text by the ten-year-old Marius Boucharessas, owner of a troop of cats who, at a word of command, execute a thrilling game of prisoners’ base. In the successive versions of Impressions d’Afrique Roussel’s writing becomes richer, more surprising, less easy to absorb. Impressions d’ Afrique greatly expands the […]