Selected Works
- 1897 Mon âme, a poem - published on 12 July 1897 in Le Gaulois (revision of 1894 work)
- 1897 La Doublure, a novel in verse
- 1900 La Seine, a novel in verse
- 1900 Chiquenaude, a novel
- 1904 La vue, Le concert and La source, poems
- 1910 Impressions d’Afrique (Impressions of Africa), a novel, later turned into a play
- 1914 Locus Solus, a novel
- 1925 L'étoile au front, a play
- 1926 La Poussière de soleil, a play
- 1932 Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique (New Impressions of Africa), a poem of four cantos with 59 drawings
- 1935 Comment j'ai écrit certains de mes livres (How I Wrote Certain of my Books, 1995, ISBN 1-878972-14-6), translated by Trevor Winkfield, contains a cross-section of his major writings, including Roussel's essay on how he composed his books, the first chapter of each of Impressions d’Afrique and Locus Solus, the fifth act of a play, the third canto of New Impressions of Africa and all 59 of its drawings, and the outline for a novel Roussel apparently never wrote.
- 1935 Parmi les noirs (Among the Blacks), a story first published in Comment j'ai écrit certains de mes livres, has been republished (Among the Blacks: Two Works (1988, ISBN 0-939691-02-7) with an essay by Ron Padgett.
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