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Maldoror’s untamed lust for destruction of life suggests that he might be considered an embodiment of the idea of evolution itself which forms, filters, and eliminates life according to the indispensable and often cruel laws of nature.
Feb 2, 2004 · This is the only complete annotated collection of Lautréamont's writings available in English, in Alexis Lykiard's superior translation. For this latest edition, Lykiard updates his introduction to include recent scholarship.
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Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror) is a French poetic novel, or a long prose poem. It was written and published between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautréamont, the nom de plume of the Uruguayan-born French writer Isidore Lucien Ducasse.
- Comte de Lautréamont
- 1868
Apr 27, 2022 · Maldoror & the complete works of the Comte de Lautreamont : Lautréamont, comte de, 1846-1870 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Nov 1, 1988 · This is a surreal, gothic, poetic, brutal, imaginative, unreadable non-story of a book written in 1868 by 22 year old Isidore Ducasse who died 2 years later. It is based around the narrator's real life and imagined alter ego Maldoror.
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Feb 27, 2009 · First published in 1865 - and devoured by the Surrealists - it is perhaps the most kaleidoscopic, stomach-churning piece of literature you'll ever come across, where sleepy hermaphrodites rub ...
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4,255 ratings300 reviews. The macabre but beautiful work Les Chants de Maldoror has achieved a considerable reputation as one of the earliest and most extraordinary examples of Surrealist writing. It is a long narrative prose poem which celebrates the principle of Evil in an elaborate style and with a passion akin to religious fanaticism.
