Raymond Roussel, ne a Paris, le 20 janvier 1877 et mort a Palerme, en Italie, le 14 juillet 1933, est un ecrivain, dramaturge et poete francais. Mark Polizzotti is the translator of more than thirty books from the French. His articles and reviews have appeared in The Wall Street Journal and The Nation. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

"Polizzotti’s remarkable achievement is a welcome addition to this small but growing body of work on Roussel and serves as a reminder of an author and a novel too often neglected, and far too brilliant to be missed." — Words Without Borders