Raymond Roussel

Raymond Roussel was born in Paris on 20 January 1877 into a wealthy bourgeois family. A pupil at the Conservatoire, where he studied the piano, he inherited his father's fortune young. While he was writing his first book, at about nineteen, he went through several months of an exaltation that gave him the feeling of universal glory; the psychiatrist Pierre Janet, who treated him, described his case. Unrecognised in his lifetime and admired later by the Surrealists, he died in Palermo on 14 July 1933.

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• NovelLocus SolusLocus solusRaymond Roussel · 1914LiteraturePublic domain