Also appearing in The Vorrh are real-life figures Eadweard Muybridge and Raymond Roussel.
He has also completed a doctorate on 18th century French literature, his thesis being on pre-surrealist Raymond Roussel.
His most direct influence in the English speaking world was on the New York School of poets; John Ashbery, Harry Mathews, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch briefly edited a magazine called Locus Solus after his novel.
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