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From: Paul Braffort <paul.braffort@noos.fr>
In a recent biography of Raymond Queneau by Michel Lécureur (Les Belles
Lettres, 2002) I have discovered that, as early as 1933, in "La critique
Sociale", n°7, RQ said of Raymond Roussel : "son imagination unit le délire
du mathématicien à la raison du poète", an appreciation very similar to
VN's own interpretaion of art as combining "the precision of poetry and the
excitement of pure science" (in his 1962 interview with Peter Duval-Smith
and Christopher Burstall).
Once again "les grands esprits se rencontrent"!
Paul Braffort
In a recent biography of Raymond Queneau by Michel Lécureur (Les Belles
Lettres, 2002) I have discovered that, as early as 1933, in "La critique
Sociale", n°7, RQ said of Raymond Roussel : "son imagination unit le délire
du mathématicien à la raison du poète", an appreciation very similar to
VN's own interpretaion of art as combining "the precision of poetry and the
excitement of pure science" (in his 1962 interview with Peter Duval-Smith
and Christopher Burstall).
Once again "les grands esprits se rencontrent"!
Paul Braffort