El retorno inmanente del lenguajeimpressions d’Afrique de Raymond Roussel y sus influencias en la obra de Marcel Duchamp
ISSN: 0123-5931
Year of publication: 2017
Issue: 19
Pages: 39-61
Type: Article
More publications in: Literatura: teoría, historia y crítica
Abstract
The presence of Marcel Duchamp at one of the showings of Impressions d’Afrique by Raymond Roussel, at the Théâtre Antoine in Paris in May of 1912, constitutes one of the inescapable landmarks when studying the life and work of the author of the Grand Verre. The objective of this article is to broaden the narrow frame of reflection in which usually are addressed the connections between both figures of the European vanguard, and to find echoes of Roussel’s famous procédé in the work of Duchamp. To do so, the study will focus on key aspects in the construction of Impressions d’Afrique including its bipartite structure, homophony and materiality of the linguistic sign