From: "Clare O'Farrell" <c_ofarrell-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: archaeology was Bad Writing?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:08:04 PST


Ian says re Raymond Roussel

>
>least read, or read but not many sold?  If we took 'least read' as a
>percentage of print runs actually read it might well turn out that _The
>Order of Things_ is the least read.

I would still say least read from the small number of references that 
actually appear to Raymond Roussel!!

>   In any case I really liked _Death and the Labyrinth_: helped me
>understand much more about the imaginary than I would have known 
otherwise.

I agree, although I found some of Foucault's other texts more 
enlightening on the subject of imagination eg 'Dream and Existence' and 
the piece on Flaubert etc

Clare


Clare O'Farrell
email:c_ofarrell-AT-hotmail.com
web page: http://www.qut.edu.au/edu/cpol/foucault/ 




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