"Galerie Buchholz is pleased to announce the opening of its New York gallery with an inaugural exhibition on Raymond Roussel. Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), the author of La Doublure (1897), La Vue (1904), Impressions d’Afrique (1909) and Locus Solus (1913), is still one of the least-known and most mysterious writers of the 20th century, despite the fact that his profound and often subterranean influence spread far among the literary and artistic avant-gardes of the 20th century. In the ten works he published during his lifetime—poems, novels in verse, narratives or plays—he made supreme efforts to create a world from scratch where 'imagination is everything', with nothing real to get in the way of the writing. ..."
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Daniel Buchholz Opens in New York, Celebrating the Elusive Raymond Roussel
Galerie Buchholz
2009 September: Raymond Roussel, 2012 January: The Tropological Space of Locus Solus
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