The audio recording of Foucault’s interview with Charles Ruas about Raymond Roussel is now online.

Foucault did this interview late in life, about one of his least-known books, translated into English as Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel. When I was doing the research for my books on Foucault, I realised that the French and English versions of this interview were not the same. Despite the version in Dits et écrits claiming to be a translation of the English version, it is actually a reprint of a French version. I explain this in more detail here, which has a brief comment from Ruas clarifying the different versions.

Many thanks to Philippe Chevallier for sending the link to the audio recordings.