this is Roussel’s masterpiece, it prompted Raymond Queneau to declare that Roussel “combined a poet’s logic with the mathematician’s delirium”, Marcel Duchamp called him “a great poet” and freely acknowledged his influence, Salvador Dali loved the pictures, soft cover in slip case, 256 pages, 19 x 17 cm, uncut pages as in the original edition, with the illustrations of H.-A.Zo, French/English, English by Ian Monk and Harry Matthews, ed/100, London 2006
