Originally published as Impressions d’Afrique by Alphonse Lemerre, Paris, in 1910
Republished in 1963 by Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Paris
Translation and introduction copyright © 2011 by Mark Polizzotti
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Roussel, Raymond, 1877-1933.
[Impressions d’Afrique. English]
Impressions of Africa / Raymond Roussel; translated [from the French] and with an introduction by Mark Polizzotti.
p. cm.
ISBN: 978-1-56478-624-1
1. Shipwreck victims--Fiction. 2. Captivity--Fiction. 3. Africa--Fiction. 4. Experimental
fiction. I. Polizzotti, Mark. II. Title.
PQ2635.O96168I513 2011
843’.912--dc22
2011012937
Partially funded by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Cet ouvrage, publié dans le cadre du programme d’aide à la publication, bénéficie du soutien du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et du Service Culturel de l’Ambassade de France représenté aux Etats-Unis.
This work, published as part of a program of aid for publication, received support from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.
Cover illustration: Trevor Winkfield, Voyager IV. Acrylic on linen, 45 ½ x 61 inches, 1997. Courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.