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and her unforgiving gaze

and perhaps ancient poets

You want to be the good mother you dreamed you could be

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Raymond Roussel: IMPRESSIONS OF AFRICA W27 [2018] paperback Condition:New and her unforgiving gazeThe first of Roussel's two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in a highly individual fashion and with an unusual time sequence, whereby the reader is even made to choose whether to begin with the first or the tenth chapter. A veritable literary melting pot, Roussel's groundbreaking text makes ample use of wordplay and the surrealist techniques of