Atlas Arkhive 8 Translated by Ian Monk The major biography of this extraordinary French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, homosexual, drug addict and probable suicide. Based on intensive research and access to a large hoard of Roussel's personal papers, diaries and photographs that only came to light in 1989, it fully details his bizarre life, his relationship with the surrealists and other avant-garde literary movements as well as such figures as Proust and Cocteau. Illustrated.