{"product_id":"how-i-wrote-certain-of-my-books-paperback","title":"How I Wrote Certain of My Books - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRaymond Roussel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTrevor Winkfield\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJohn Ashbery\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaymond Roussel (1877-1933), next-door neighbor of Marcel Proust, can be described without exaggeration as the most eccentric writer of the 20th century. His unearthly style based on elaborate linguistic riddles and puns fascinated the Surrealists and famously influenced the composition of Marcel Duchamp's \"Large Glass,\" but also affected writers as diverse as Gide, Robbe-Grillet and Foucault (author of a book-length study of Roussel). The title essay of this collection is the key to Roussel's method, and it is accompanied by selections from all his major works of fiction, drama and poetry, translated by his New York School admirers John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and Harry Mathews, and the painter and author Trevor Winkfield. Ashbery writes that Roussel's work is \"like the perfectly preserved temple of a cult which has disappeared without a trace ... we can still admire its inhuman beauty, and be stirred by a language that seems always on the point of revealing its secret.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 7.93 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47789842628829,"sku":"9781878972149","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/uwJPCfEtTu9781878972149.webp?v=1776236875","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/how-i-wrote-certain-of-my-books-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}