After five years’ intense labour Roussel renounced this project too, and began work on another poem also to be called Nouvelles impressions d’Afrique which – aside from eighteen months spent writing his two plays, of which no manuscripts exist – absorbed him for the remainder of his creative life. The manuscript pages of the final […]
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The whole cycle consists of some 2900 pages of manuscript, not all of it easily legible. There follows an extended, densely written plot outline, and then a final plan detailing further narrative developments. Hundreds of pages of Acts II and III of its final section are only roughly drafted; many consist of a few scattered […]