Représentation, écriture et cliché dans la genèse d'Impressions d'Afrique

This article studies the use Raymond Roussel makes of language in the drafts for Impressions d’Afrique. The author chooses to focus on crucial passages from the pre-texts of this novel in which the elaboration of a mode of writing goes hand in hand with the elaboration of a system of representation. At the heart of the article is the question of the stereotype, the style, and the representation of the a-referential universe sought by Roussel.