Who is Going to Play Raymond Roussel When They Make a Movie About his Life?

Raymond Roussel was brought to the American consciousness when John Asheberry began translating some of his books into English. He was a neurasthenic and poet, a mathematically inclined drug addict and totally self-published author who was dedicating to writing some of the most fantastic and clinically oneirometric books in existence. Francois Caradec's biography has finally come to America in English thanks to a stupendous translation by Ian Monk, and it is only a matter of time before Hollywood adapts it for the big screen. The question we must ask ourselves is "Who is going to play him?" When Foucault wrote his only full-length treatise on literature, Death and the Labyrinth, it was about Roussel. In the intro to the book
Foucault said that Proust's homosexually was obscured by his literature, Gide's homosexuality was overt and Roussel's was a non-issue; so the only way to write a book about Roussel was to treat his sexuality how it was presented, as a non-issue. It is too bad James Dean couldn't be here today.