Mark Ford Genius in Its Pure State

This bone was accordingly removed from the body of every recently deceased person, carefully hollowed out, and affixed to a stake planted in a vast field, each rib facing into the east wind. Dewsbury was obsessed by the need to discover the precise location of the...

Mark Ford Genius in Its Pure State

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...

Mark Ford Genius in Its Pure State

Admirers of Roussel may be relieved to learn that he seems likely to remain as enigmatic and unassimilable as ever, a radiant paradigm of what Cocteau once called ‘genius in its pure state’. This mass of material exponentially augments our knowledge of Roussel’s...