Raymond Roussel



Australian Marginalia: Encounters with Australia in Raymond Roussel, John Ashbery and Georges Perec

You would not like Melbourne, for it is full of handsomes [sic] cabs. I adore it, for I love this form of locomotion. I have already used the candle-powered heater, for it is winter here; during the first part of the crossing, I think they would have melted without my lighting them.

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Courrier des Antipodes – Notes on Michel Butor’s Letters from the Antipodes

Just over a week later we heard the sad news that Michel Butor had died on 24 August, 2016 at the age of 89.

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