Abstract: This article studies the use Raymond Roussel makes of language in the drafts for Impressions d’Afrique. The author chooses to focus on crucial passages from the pre-texts of this novel in which the elaboration of a mode of writing goes hand in hand with the elaboration of a system of representation. At the heart of the article is the question of the stereotype, the style, and the representation of the a-referential universe sought by Roussel.
