Raymond Roussel war für Harry Mathews und Georges Perec ein entscheidender Einfluss

"Innovative

rooted in compassion

thought-provoking

she won many prizes at Latin American poetry and literature festivals

How to speak dead Selin Davasse Raymond Roussel war für HarryHow does one language inherit another? Defeat, erase or live through another? How to speak dead is Walid Sadeks meditative reflection on language, dead or victorious. At heart, beyond defeat and victory, it is a reflection on how one can approach a speaking that is of neither a living language nor a dead one. A speaking that knows loss and knows it is woven into every uttered word, every spoken sentence. A loss that becomes syntax. There, where the